I have spent very less time on Debian compared to others on this thread. So I’m not very qualified to speak about this topic.

My silly observations

• No snap/Canonical nonsense. I don’t hate snap, but it’s not compatible with my workflow.
• Overall lesser number of processes OOTB compared to Ubuntu. So I can quickly find out if there is a stray process running via htop.
• Terminal operation/reboot seems way faster
• Slower update frequency, so no random feature changes
• Less RAM/disk requirement (Important in the post AI world)

Some quirks when coming from Ubuntu

• No sudo! You either have to install sudo/sudo-rs/doas. I went with doas
• Debian manages network differently (Not netplan)
• Lack of support from Nvidia if you work with AI. I don’t, so not a problem.

If you need to deploy a server with mainly docker workloads, just go with Debian. I have one last remaining Ubuntu server which I’ll replace one day.

after all the snap package nonsense ubuntu is basically just ‘debian but worse and less stable’ Definitely check out debian. Imo the golden years of ubuntu are well done and buried at this point. Tho, i will never forget installing the first beta of the unity desktop on my school laptop way back when, this is all said with a deep love for the project, just cant imagine daily driving it actually having any advantages to other distros atm