I've used a lot of distros over the years ( since around '97) Ive pretty much settled on Ubuntu when I need a desktop, and debian for everything else except for some instances where I'll use netbsd.
Redhat/fedora gets a bad rap a lot of the time, but i wouldn't knock it. A lot of people are very familiar with it, and its good to be familiar with it. Most of the time I find my self doing linux stuff with other people at work, they are used to redhat, so i'll go that route, to make it easier on them. *nix is *nix, theyre all so similar, if you can't float from one unix to another your surely must be anal about something irrelevant.
