💣 Zoid
The laptop is a Thinkpad x260, it's main purpose is note taking in meetings, python development when mobile, and e-mails. Everything I need to do can be done in pretty much any distro as I'm not using any specialized or esoteric applications.
🦾 Nopi
i've switched recently from debian to manjaro (gnome) on an x220 and am pretty happy. well preconfigured, everything works out of the box, customizable, you got AUR at your disposal, ...
💣 Zoid
Not at all, I've been using *NIX full time since 2006. I've pretty much stuck with mainline distros like Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora. (I also use FreeBSD and CentOS on my servers).