[karmakaze]

Ubuntu 18.04 with Xfce or LXDE.

1. Because that's what's typically deployed on servers I use.

2. Chose that for servers because the packages tend to work more often with more sensible settings. Whenever I try to switch to a less popular distro that doesn't use the Ubuntu software repos I find that packages either don't just work or that the defaults are less usable. This even applies to Debian distros.

Other distros have other advantages and I use them in special contexts.