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Tips for switching to Debian from Ubuntu?
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Depends on what you're looking for.
Up to date packages: Arch or Fedora
Stable: Rocky or Mint
I personally love Arch for its lightweight nature, its documentation, and the AUR, but I use Fedora on my desktop and server, and Debian on my HTPC. I also have Rocky on my laptop, but that was mostly just to play around with it.
Fedora is nice because it's fairly up to date and has a fairly robust, self maintaining package manager (i.e. it automatically removes unused deps and cleans up after itself).