'In a possibly related note, Linus Torvalds said this week in a new interview that "I use Fedora on all my machines, not because it's necessarily 'preferred', but because it's what I'm used to. I don't care deeply about the distribution — to me it's mainly a way to get Linux installed on a machine and get all my tools set up, so that I can then replace the kernel and work on just that.'
Linus actually said this at the Debian Conf14 which was held in Portland, OR in 2014. Linus lives in the very wealthy suburb of Dunthorpe (actually, the richest suburb in the Portland, OR area) and Linus did a Q&A session for this Debian Conf.