Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”
I just switched to Debian this week after using Ubuntu for a very long time. I get it, Ubuntu is made by a for profit company but it has a lot working by default and replacing those in Debian takes precious time.
Terminal transparency, NVIDIA driver support, permanent dock, pretty disk encryption unlocking screen, many gnome tweaks (minimize/maximize), non-free and contrib apt repos, and probably many more are in Ubuntu but not Debian by default. Ubuntu looks a bit prettier. The installer is way less intuitive in Debian too, to me, and looks ugly.
But hey at least I can sleep at night 😎