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Archlinux for about 8 years now. Before that I used Ubuntu. Before that I used Gentoo. And before that was Debian, back in the dark ages when I installed Linux from several floppies.
Along the way I tried a few others, too, but never really stuck with them.
Arch Linux is hard at the beginning but I never will look back using something else as daily driver.