OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

I've had Linux in one form or the other since the very early release days (0.something). I've never found it for use as a desktop system (especially GUI) particularly compelling. I think many folks secretly hold the same opinion, else why the rise of products like Wine? And there are some areas where it really is deficient--multimedia for example. Specialized apps are another area--I've never found a really good WYSIWYG musical notation editor for Linux. For doing real work, I like command line interfaces, so I keep a Linux system around that I can telnet into from my Windows desktop. I might be tempted to use a Mac as a desktop machine, but my customers in general don't, so it's best to live where they do, so to speak. My mail and net server is Linux and I change distros there when I change hardware--every few years. There's no reason to do otherwise--the new distros aren't as a rule faster and the server basically never crashes since it's always doing the same thing day after day. As far as distros go, I started with Slackware, but have been using RH for some time, simply because I've been using RH for some time.. It really doesn't matter all that much--RH does tend to be very spotty in its releases--you can often find some very old release of a package in their distros--and they have the RH way of doing things. Debian isn't bad but can get to be very confusing and verbose during installation--and help in making choices is often difficult to find. I've also tried SuSE and it's pretty good. But mostly, I want to install the blasted thing and be done with it. Others have observed the bloat in Linux and I agree. I started running it on an 8MB 386 and it was pretty snappy. I don't think that feat could be reproduced with any of the current distros.