> I’ve found developers frowning up Ubuntu and preaching for folks to use NixOS, Arch, Debian or other distros.

My setup is mostly one VM per project group / online identity. Most of them using Ubuntu. The problem is when I want to work on an old project to check how it likes new technology I tend to stumble into the "you should have kept the OS up to date" problem. Ubuntu does not make it easy to upgrade if you miss more than a year of update.

And even if you keep up to date, they tend to break things often (loved the X11 to weyland switch when working with screen capture libraries) so new VMs are using debian.