Linux

Debian stable, but Alpine and Guix are also worth considering.

minimal: alpine
general purpose: debian or CentOS, i'll still use it for now.

I've been seeing stuff about this but I don't quite understand, what does this mean for Fedora? Do I need to switch too?

I thought very similar after the RHEL moves that Red Hat has made. I was thinking OpenSUSE or Debian, but I am still unsure as what I am going to do.

For my public-facing server, I use Debian Testing, since I haven't had any major issues with it's stability. Auto-upgrades usually work , although there were a few times I had to manually intervene on the latest name-change upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie. I usually don't even log-in except every few months.

At home, where it will only affect me, and possibly my family dealing with me, if the whole O. S. crashes and has to be rebuilt from backups, I use Arch.

I have utilized Debian and Minimum Ubuntu as an alternative to Centos with reasonably pleasurable results

I do also like Absolute for crafting the perfect lightweight install, but it's kind of a pain in the ass.

I use Ubuntu for everything (including at work, tens of thousands machines) and it's great

I switched from CentOS to Ubuntu server quite a few years ago and have been very happy with it.

One of the benefits is that for someone like myself who is not a full time Linux user, having the same distro on both home and work machines makes it a lot easier to know more about each of them

SLAAAAAAACKWAAAAARE!!!! Slackware is good.

Debian is a nice second.

Slackware. Its stable as a mofo.

Have to also add to the voices recommending Debian stable. I've used it now for ten straight years after I stopped distro-hopping for my servers and desktop, and I cannot imagine using another distro. It's incredibly stable, but the best part of Debian is the absolutely expansive repositories that even the Arch User Repository can't beat. Very rarely do I ever need to use Flatpak (ugh) for packages, or look to add in new external repositories.

Debian is stable. Arch is bleeding edge and vanilla. if you want something on arch you got to install it and follow the arch wiki

Slackware because it rules.
OpenSuse for RPM and company backing.
EndeavourOS for "lazy" Arch install.

What’s motivating you to leave?

Void Linux. It just works.

I'm also moving away from RHEL. I have 3 RHEL servers right now, a hypervisor host, a podman vm, and a Samba share vm. I really liked that you could specify regulatory compliance at install time. Makes it really easy for standing up compliant servers. Are there any distros that do something similar?

This question is just going to draw a lot of "hey what's your favourite distro" responses.

But if you want something EL-like that isn't RHEL, consider the bastard child of Conectiva and Mandrake, long ejected from the RedHat family but still very similar -- PCLinuxOS. It has the superior signed packaging format, and it has much of the same workflow. Its packer compatibility suffers greatly from its mageia times - I think - so they're still a bit ghetto about anything at scale, but that's almost the only thing they don't have nailed-down. Their massive compatibility window delivers on everything AppStream claims but cannot.

For minimal stuff, consider AlpineLinux, which also is free of Systemd and still manages to run really well for reasons Lennart's fans simply can't understand.