>Between releases which require reinstallations You got your facts wrong, Ubuntu supports updating in place no need to reinstall, maybe you confuse Ubuntu/Debi

>Between releases which require reinstallations You got your facts wrong, Ubuntu supports updating in place no need to reinstall, maybe you confuse Ubuntu/Debian with other distros that require a reinstallation. Ubuntu has a LTS version and it officially backports video and other drivers to allow support for recent hardware.