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Mint (MATE). It's preconfigured closest to what I want, with just a couple tweeks I can do whatever I need with utilities and a GUI I'm familiar with.
If Its a headless machine Ubuntu or Debian. Again familiar with both can do whatever on both without having to relearn low to build a wheel.
Primarily a windows user but I do use Linux for some applications.
Interesting to see Ubuntu for headless? Since it's such a desktop-focused choice. What are your thoughts?
I ask because right now my desktop and my headless are both PopOS (because I liked it on my desktop), but I was thinking of changing the headless to something lighter.