Debian. On every computer with a physical keyboard. And all servers. Mainly because of philosophy, stability, release cycle (2 years for major updates which I find neither too longnkor too short) and having gotten (is that proper english lol) used to it.
My t440s is 10 years now. Still going strong as my main and only computer. Although, those frame.works's look really nice.
Having had massive problems using normal swap in combination with zfs in out of memory situations with high memory pressure I now only - but as default - use zram on bare-metal machines.
Never worry about backups or lost data etc, as the provider would take care of it
This is not how it works. You still have to backup your data!
Your account can be closed due to various reasons, you accidentally delete files, some malware deletes files without you noticing it before it is too late.
A friend of mine lost some important data because of the ovh server container fire incident. Ovh had no backups.
You just update DNS entry if your ip changes (automatically over api ofc)
Ansible and Terraform united. Make something out of it IBM.
But if not (for disaster recovery only) it is pretty cheap. Like 1$/TB/month.
You're joking. You're joking, right? Right?
I went exactly the same route. Years of proxmox realizing it is not KISS in any way for my use cases. Switches to Nixos on ZFS root (so no bash installation scripts ;) ).
However, docker has not the same level of isolation and security as VMs. I am currently looking into gVisor for that.