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I agree, it doesn't matter much. Just like frameworks and programming languages, they may be considered boring and aren't being hyped up, but the stable options are the safest. Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, OpenSuse and Fedora are go tos. When starting out you want information that is easy to find, I can personally attest that you will easily find information with those distros.

The bigger the distro, the more official support there is as well, instead of relying on community versions. Ubuntu and Fedora get a lot of dev love.

If you are willing to read up a bit more and re-install a few times, Arch Linux is another distro with a lot of community information online. But honestly for work, I would stick to old reliable Ubuntu.