I'd recommend debian - the universal operating system.
If your software does not exist for debian, your software does not exist. (Ubuntu is just debian with extra corpo flavour)
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It's been a while since I've used pure debian, but historically I've used Ubuntu because debian made it more difficult to install "non-free" software. Has this changed?
Yes, you just have to change a file, apt update and you're good to go. https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Using__a_text_editor (you probably want to add contrib, non-free and non-free-firmware)
One year ago I treated how long it takes to get Gimp to install on various distros in distrobox:
Results:
zypper@Tumbleweed: 3 minutes, 22 seconds
apt@Ubuntu 22.04: 1 minute 26 seconds
dnf@Fedora: 1 minute 2 seconds
pacman@arch: 0 minutes 21 seconds
But that's just installation speed. It simply shows that there are quite big differences depending on use case.
For everyday tasks, I think a Fedora distrobox works fine, but you would have to upgrade it eventually and I admit I'm not sure how you do that under distrobox. Still, I initially used it and still have a Fedora distrobox I use for doing stuff for my job, as well as one I use for running a game modding program that requires Java, and they both work fine.
I've also had success with a Debian distrobox, which I used to compile Render96ex. Debian is pretty universal, so it's much easier to follow compile instructions using it than a Fedora distrobox ^^'