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Zorin OS is the way to go if you are sticking with the Debian/Ubuntu family. It's basically the Mac OS of Linux distributions, by shipping with a level of polish that other distributions don't deliver. To me this means I did zero tinkering out of the box to have the experience I wanted after spending a day configuring KDE in other distributions any time I did a reinstall. As far as printers go, they have always been hit or miss, but my problems were solved by disabling IPv6 on my local network.

Yes, there is always something that won't work. This often happens with Windows (not too often, but it happens), but most often with Macs. Linux is quite buggy in the userspace area, I usually find bugs or crashes within an hour of using any linux distro. The one with the FEWER bugs is definitely Debian. But it does that by not using hacks or beta drivers or software. This creates a rock solid architecture, but some hardware won't work (in my case, it was the sound chip for an intel J-series cpu that required a third party patch to work and recompile the kernel -- while Ubuntu ships with that patch by default, but ubuntu has way more other bugs all around).

So at the end, you will have to ask yourself if you want Linux because it's the right thing to do and use, or you just don't want to be bothered with ideology, and just use Windows and be done with it. I've asked myself that question and the answer is two fold: as a daily browser laptop, that doesn't depend on third party hardware, I just use my Macbook Air. It's a great laptop to have around in front of the TV, or traveling. For third party hardware dependency, and video editing, I use Windows with an nvidia card. For everything else, I use Linux. I have 8-9 computers, most run Linux. I create databases with it, I do some photo editing, financials etc.

I thought I would stick with Debian

There's your first mistake. Don't run a server distro on a workstation if you don't want to deal with it's downsides.

I haven't been able to make my printer work in it

Read the CUPS Arch wiki page

do you people think Ubuntu will work for me?

Fuck Ubuntu. Use Mint if you want to try something Ubuntu based.

I've recently went through a bunch of stable distros and Nobara had the best experience out of the box.

Why would you use Debian, it has the oldest packages and kernel of all distros. I would maybe run that on a server, but probably just use Ubuntu LTS instead.

For desktop you should try Pop OS. Really good distro from System 76.

Stay away from Ubuntu, it's very buggy for desktop. I tried it six months ago, fresh install, and the console app wouldn't even open on a fresh install. No error message, just didn't open. Great impression.....

Most operating systems mostly work find something that has a release cadence you like and is close to what you want then you will have to customize it to fit your needs

Ubuntu actually worked for some people, who, for example, had trouble with PopOS! and getting highest refresh rate on multiple monitors. So yeah, if Ubuntu doesn't work, try Zorin OS, and if that doesn't work, try Manjaro, and if Manjaro doesn't work, there so many more to try out!