I've been using Debian for both server and desktop work for years (wow, actually decades) now. I like that I don't have to fiddle with it. Once set up, it just works well, basically forever. No fear of running apt-get dist-upgrade and having to shave yaks for an afternoon getting everything working again. I have no need to live on the bleeding edge of every package update, and not a big fan of some of the choices made by Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions, so Debian is perfect for me. I didn't even know Drama among the project maintainers existed, so they seem to have managed to keep personnel issues out of the actual software distribution, which is also a bonus.