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Debian stable, but my hardware is all old. Hardware that uses a new chip, such as some wifi devices released in the last couple of years, may require using a kernel from backports or waiting a couple of years for a new major version.
It may depend on what you mean exactly by desktop. If you want a full-blown desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, then you may be better off going with Ubuntu, since you already have some Debian experience anyway. Debian and Ubuntu are very similar, with Debian having a more conservative and Free Software focus, whereas Ubuntu is often treated as the default "desktop Linux" by vendors who want to make their propriet…
My list of requirements is non-existent except that it would be nice to easily out of the box be able to play games and have a tiling window manager. I come from Windows10 so, no real demands or philosophical needs about the OS other than that it would be nice to avoid ads in the OS as much as possible.
I'm inclined to agree with another poster that maybe you should check out Debian. I only have the caveat that, in my past experience (maybe it's different 10-15 years later) the distro annoyed me sometimes with the rigor of its anti-proprietary stance. Software which I expected to be available in the package manager turned out to be unavailable because the license wasn't up to debian standards. I like the gentoo approach that, although only Free Software is available by default, you can still add overrides for specific packages.
I guess if debian doesn't work out, you can always try Ubuntu, Arch Linux, or Void. Distro-hopping exists as a trope for a reason :)
I surprised myself recently by realising that I've been using LinuxMint for about 10-12 years.
I would probably prefer to use Debian Testing, but the Debian politics means that I have to use MariaDB instead of MySQL. That's the sort of thing that means I would have to jump through extra hoops when writing software that accesses the databases to get past those little inconsistencies.
Arch + i3 + tmux + d-menu Oh… and I use vim by the way
Debian stable, but my hardware is all old. Hardware that uses a new chip, such as some wifi devices released in the last couple of years, may require using a kernel from backports or waiting a couple of years for a new major version.
I'm surprised that so many go for Debian even for desktop. Might just give it a try as I am used to it from the server side.