I've always liked Debian.
I've not u sed it for a long time though. It's not user friendly - sure the apt-get and various repisitory explorers work/or are working better to work out dependencies etc. non-free winds me up as the Nvidia stuff used to be like that.
It wouldn't be too hard to enable non-free and allow all the various other repo's. Editing sources to add them in manually can be prone to a bit of error.
Only issue I ever had though was installing a package that knackered the window display manager - but it was very experimental package.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
