I work with RH (RHEL, CentOS, etc) and Debian (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, etc) based distros as a job. My preference between the two styles is Debian. Of the Debian based distros I like Mint, Debian and Ubuntu.
My personal server at home is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support), because the LTS versions are supported for 3 years. Since I use my server as a LAN media server, HTPC, EQEmu server, and UUNET indexer, I prefer to have a server that doesn't have to be upgraded every year in order to receive security updates.
Further more, I find Debian's aptitude/apt-get command line package management tool to run circles around RedHat's Yum. Yum makes a nobel effort but falls short in handling dependencies with the same level of polish that aptitude and apt-get have.
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