Tumbleweed or Leap are good. You could go with something exotic like VanillaOS

• Debian for stable.
• Fedora if you want a bit more bleeding edge.
• Arch for desktop/laptops.

At least that's how I've been running my homelab stuff for years now.

Debian stable, but Alpine and Guix are also worth considering.

For server, Debian is great :) i use ubuntu 20.04 lts personally

I've been seeing stuff about this but I don't quite understand, what does this mean for Fedora? Do I need to switch too?

I don't understand what's happening at Red Hat. First they pull the codecs out of Fedora which is supposed to be a community distro so why are company lawyers involved? Now basically closing their source code. I mean technically not violating the GPL cause you only have to have your source available to your customers.

SLAAAAAAACKWAAAAARE!!!! Slackware is good.

Debian is a nice second.

I would definitely give openSUSE a try. such a solid distro. Debian is also great, popOS seems likeable, nixOS is very very solid, I've used Arch, Manjaro and opensuse myself. currently on arch. but I highly recommend openSUSE

Debian is stable. Arch is bleeding edge and vanilla. if you want something on arch you got to install it and follow the arch wiki

Have to also add to the voices recommending Debian stable. I've used it now for ten straight years after I stopped distro-hopping for my servers and desktop, and I cannot imagine using another distro. It's incredibly stable, but the best part of Debian is the absolutely expansive repositories that even the Arch User Repository can't beat. Very rarely do I ever need to use Flatpak (ugh) for packages, or look to add in new external repositories.

Slackware because it rules.
OpenSuse for RPM and company backing.
EndeavourOS for "lazy" Arch install.

Debian's pretty good, but you can always use RHEL with a free account too

Debian is my go-to for containers and VMs. Stable af. For my laptop and desktop I run pop_os.

On my Desktop, I switched to Manjaro (Arch-based) from Mint a few years ago. Works like a charm and I like the rolling release model. On servers, Ubuntu, Debian or SUSE might be a good choice.

Void Linux. It just works.

I have utilized Debian and Minimum Ubuntu as an alternative to Centos with reasonably pleasurable results

I do also like Absolute for crafting the perfect lightweight install, but it's kind of a pain in the ass.

Gentoo! it can be anything you want on any platform

I'm also moving away from RHEL. I have 3 RHEL servers right now, a hypervisor host, a podman vm, and a Samba share vm. I really liked that you could specify regulatory compliance at install time. Makes it really easy for standing up compliant servers. Are there any distros that do something similar?