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I think Ubuntu is a popular distro. Not necessarily leading in any way. There's other popular distros out there, distros with good documentation, simple to use or beginner friendly, distros which are fast or have a lot of software available. And I'm -personally- not a huge fan of Canonical's business decisions and what they're trying to push on a given day... So I pick different Linux distros. YMMV.
Maybe you mean Cachy OS or Tumbleweed?
Sure. I've heard a lot of praising words towards Cachy OS. Tumbleweed might be your thing if you're looking for an easy rolling release distro... I didn't mention any specific ones since we all use computers differently, we all have different use-cases, levels of expertise... And I also don't just use one distro. I have a different one on the server than on my laptop, I use yet a different one for retro gaming... There's just so much out there and depending on what exactly you do, could be any of a dozen or so different options and they're all good (or there's reasons to pick or not pick them...)
Leap nice too actually in direct comparing to Ubuntu LTS, I like leap cause it bases on suse enterprise