I used to use Debian unstable because it had all the packages regular Debian was missing, but it was a bit, well, unstable. Then Ubuntu came out about 12 years

I used to use Debian unstable because it had all the packages regular Debian was missing, but it was a bit, well, unstable. Then Ubuntu came out about 12 years ago and it was exactly what I had always wanted: a stable distribution of everything missing from Debian. Since then Ubuntu has been my default choice of Linux and the LTS versioning has served well for long-running servers.