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Ubuntu is promoted as a newbie-friendly distro, so sometimes I'm helping peoples here. But if you're not a complete novice, consider also Fedora. This is a distro by Red Hat, who are developers of tons of projects. Fedora gets a lot of testing, and has much less dated packages than Ubuntu, and less bugs that were fixed in more recent versions of apps. I wouldn't like to recommend it to newbies, since a few things require manual tweaking (e.g. out-of-the-box youtube videos may not work due to missing codecs that require a separate repository), but otherwise it is a very decent distro.
I'm personally an Archlinux user though, and if you're a developer, you may consider moving there (note: Archlinux is absolutely not newbie-friendly), because of:
Things you might want after considering Archlinux fully installed and configured.
sudo systemctl enable systemd-resolved
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