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Sending some encouragement your way: try Debian. I bet money you won't even notice it's not Ubuntu. Or you will, because your software will launch when you ask it to. I'm super happy with Debian lately. I know it used to be the old neck beard slow and steady distro, but honestly these days packages get updates rather timely and it doesn't feel like the Debian of 10 years ago. And you can always run Debian testing with almost no overhead if you want the shinnies. That's what I do and have only had to deal with gnome not starting after a reboot once XD

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I've been using Debian unstable with apt-listbugs for many years with barely a problem. Testing has issues of its own which one should be aware of before choosing it over unstable (see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.ht..., "Testing has more up-to-date software than Stable, and it breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it might take a long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and it could be months at times. It also does not have permanent security support.")

Lately I tried fedora and surprised they have many up to date packages including exa (ls alternative) and other new shiny rust tools. I've switched to using it for one of my personal server and quite happy.

One problem I have with Debian (that is not Debian's fault) is that NVidia does not officially support it. It probably works just fine, but it's just another thing you might run into.

There are .deb packages in the non-free repo and it just works as long as the driver has no bugs regarding to card installed on the system.

Made the switch 4 years ago after running raspian with no problems on the pi?.

If someone is debating just setup rasp with headless ssh and have at it.

Does unattended-upgades also work on Debian to install security updates aromatically?

Debian is nice if you don't mind the glacial pace of updates -i.e. you're running a server. After using Arch I don't think I can give up rolling releases.

That’s why people are recommending unstable (sid) which is Debian’s rolling updates channel.

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