I’m personally very happy with CachyOS. I switched to it over a year ago and it basically just works, no drama. Like any arch-based distro, you can pick whatever desktop environment you want, and switch later (or install multiple) if you want. It has sane defaults, and a good installer. The performance is a nice bonus.

Try Gentoo. It teaches you a lot about stuff you may already know, but perhaps it’s good to revisit, and it gives you extreme fine grain control over your system. Don’t just install, actually configure and use it for a bit.

Are you looking to mess around and challenge yourself with a new way of doing things? NixOS

Are you looking for a daily driver with less mucking around? Fedora

Well if you don’t want to use those that you listed than maybe that Hannah Montana one would suit your needs.

Is there something not working out for you? Linux has basically simply “just worked” for a long time… It’s basically down to how you want your updates and what DE you prefer.

I prefer endeavor with kde for rolling release and fedora and gnome for a more stable set it and forget it install.

Why do you want to switch?

I’m somewhat interested in Void Linux, for the claim that it’s “stable rolling”. If it weren’t for patterns, I might prefer OpenSUSE Slowroll for something more user-friendly. Both of these seem less talked about (than say something like NixOS*), though Slowroll is still listed as ‘experimental’. I probably would like something more flexible than Slowroll’s release schedule, too.

Haven’t tried anything new myself, my system is a bit outdated and my now-legacy GPU makes it a bit harder too. Internet is shared and not the fastest, add on Arch’s need for manual intervention and that’s why I can’t just update (and the sort of thing I hope to sidestep with a different distro).

Also meta note, the rules link in the sidebar doesn’t seem to work.

* technically an option for me, but overcomplicates things (and not sure about point releases). If I went this route, I might try nixpkgs on its own first.

I liked zorin for the install and go aspect. It has a bunch of default software someone would expect to use and tries to be friendly to somone familiar with windows. Its an unbuntu respin which is based on debian if that makes a difference but there are only a few core distros. I now use bazzite whos main thing is steam integration off the bat as well as being one of the immutable ones.