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Ubuntu and essentially every other answer is wrong.
if I had to bet on one distro for the next 5 years and I had to stay on it, it would be Ubuntu.
I run Arch right now but I would never bet on Arch.
Arch is quite an old distro and extremely popular. Valve could have chosen any distro, but settled on Arch.