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Mint is the best apparently
https://distrowatch.com/
I use Arch btw
Distrowatch does their rankings by page hits, it's not the best indicator of either usage or popularity.
Wait, MX has finally been supplanted by superior options? Unbelievable!
(Still feels like an outlier when you consider actual popularity of distros)
Obviously. I use Mint, by the way.