So I was on a conference in Berlin and opened up my laptop running Ubuntu 16.04.
Suddenly a huge sigh from the audience: *uhg* not unity...

Now since I'm usually working in windows and was limited by time I didn't have another option, and Ubuntu has an easy installer.

Now I'm looking into dual booting my other laptop (windows 10) so I want to know what distribution is according to you devranters best?

Currently considering Ubuntu and arch, anything I might have missed?

I'd choose Debian or Fedora

@asgs please explain

Linux mint, it's ubuntu based, so should be a familiar enviroment, but uses cinnamon as desktop, i think is a very nice desktop, you could try it

Linux Mint or CentOS

Fedora with Cinamon is my favorite.
Leans more towards windows (not that that is an actualy reason for me), but it is still Gnome (well a spinoff from gnome)

@Dunky13 I was using Ubuntu in the initial days when I was just getting started with Linux. The more and more I used it, it felt like just another Windows. Debian being its parent felt more flexible to me.

Debian,

I suggest you go for Ubuntu Mate, Arch , Debian or Cent OS

@illinit I want to dual boot only 1 Linux distro :-P

@Dunky13
You wanted something that is easy to install but look good?
Try Bunsenlabs

@Linux not necessarily easy, just the opinion of other devs what linux to use on dualboot.

I am always up for a challenge, if it is a useful one :-)

I use Linux mint and love it. As mentioned before, it's based on Ubuntu, but there's not a whole lot of front-end features. Cinnamon is a nice minimal desktop that looks great but doesn't get in your way

@Dunky13 I think you won't get too far with this kind of question, everyone is gonna give you an opinion based on what they want to use themselves.

My opinion is that you should look for what u want your district to do.

For example, I always used Ubuntu, for its very easy to install and maintain, but it came the time it became slowish and after updating to Ubuntu 16.04 package system went broken.

Now I'm using arch because of its philosophy, which makes it easy for u to learn Linux. But it could be gentoo, that compiles every package from source, or it could be Slackware, where u have to configure every part of us system manually, it it could be FSB, that isn't even a distraction, but in fact it is a documentation that explains how to build everything, even the kernel, from source.

So in the end that's my suggestion, choose a distro based on its philosophical approach as all the rest will come as consequence to this philosophy.

@ezbie true, but I'm wondering what choices devs make and what their philosophy behind it is

Fedora is the only mature true Linux distribution.
It is supported by RedHat which is on a good side.
It doesn't add its own patches to programs and libraries.
The software in the repos is pretty fresh.
It has a large community and the council which makes decisions basing on the user's needs.
You are free to choose from several spins having various DE by default.
http://getfedora.org/

If you are new to linux, go for a distro like Linux Mint or Ubuntu or Fedora, which are relatively easy to set up and have GUIs for most of the system settings. Arch linux, though extensively documented, has a more involved set up, and sometimes may cause things to break due to its rolling releases.

Solus! It's just Awesome. Beautiful, clean and fast. It boots in 4s on my machine.

Arch. If you're not over comfortable with command line installation give Arch Anywhere a go. Makes installing a breeze and you won't get any unnecessary bloat.

Adding openSUSE to the list. Actually there are two of them. Leap that is LTS and comes by default with more options than CentOS and it is based on SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise) and if you are adventurous there is rolling flavor called Tumbleweed - automatically tested and surprisingly stable given the nature.