Also, debians unattended upgrades packages leaves a lot of packages unupdated by default.
Lastely, ubuntu releases have a well-defined and known life span. You know exacly what date support will end. Not so with Debian.
If you're like me and willing to deal with these shortcomings, then I highly recommend switching to Debian!
I only have one laptop, and it's running something a bit more Redmond oriented.
Not only that but for a long time their default gnome configuration worked very well (back when they had the top and bottom panel thing). Debian very much threw you into it and said "Here's Gnome, have fun!" and you had to spend hours on a second computer learning how to install a browser and configure it (and go through multiple iterations of startx failing because your config was not right, because you were learning stuff).
I don't use either any more - most of my linux use is on Raspberry Pi OS, WSL, or in some container or something.
It's always worked for me. Change repos to new release name. sudo apt update, apt dist-upgrade, and everything typically works. On one machine I went through 3 consecutive point releases with now issues. You can also hold off on upgrading right away, as the old stable branch is supported for (iirc) another year.
This is it for me. Ubuntu works out of the box as well as Windows does with any hardware I've chosen. From what I've heard, the same can't be said for most other distros.
I use Linux because I like being able to tweak my experience easily, but I do not enjoy spending time fiddling with drivers. I'd rather use Ubuntu and disable the things I don't like than use something that's more "pure" out of the box but have to tweak a bunch of configurations to get things to work properly.
This is objectively not true. Debian has not worked for users interests in several cases.
One such case I experienced years ago, and the reason I switched to Ubuntu, was while at university with a laptop. I had been using Debian on and off alongside Windows for a long time by that point but then a new version of Debian came out. It might have been Debian 7.
Previously Debian had shipped with the correct Intel drivers/firmware for this laptops (incredibly well supported and common at the time) WiFi chipset.
However in the (then latest) version they refused to ship the driver because "we don't support non-free software". I was left in the situation where I could no longer 1) properly finish setting up the laptop as there was no longer internet access, 2) unable to use the ethernet sockets in the buildings as they were locked down to specific MAC addresses.
It took several days for me to be able to get a USB drive, find another PC I could run the Windows -> ISO program from Microsoft, write it to the USB drive, and then finally reinstall Windows.
I don't care for how dogmatic and Stallman-like they approached this, and I don't care how people try to defend this, it's simply not the case they have always worked for users interests. By removing a previously shipped driver that fucks over a user even being able to use their machine, they are working to harm the users interests.
This is why Ubuntu won. It just works. It loads """non-free""" drivers. I heard recently that Debian might finally ship with the type of drivers they used to. Too little too late.
I remember when Mark shipped Ubuntu CDs for free to anyone who requested them. Always wanted to get one, but never did because I was able to obtain Ubuntu ISOs through other means, so it didn't feel like the right thing to do. (Although we were using dial-up up until 2008 or so.) Those times seem to have passed long ago.