I like Debian even if that makes me a plebian. It's pretty solid for all my use cases, from little bitty netbooks to my servers, I rarely if ever have issues. As for DE/WM, I alternate between i3 and XFCE on desktop, and only i3 on laptop. I've experimented with many popular distros as daily drivers, and finally settled on Debian about 6 or 7 years ago.