Ubuntu is just one of the many distros derived from Debian; some apps even share the same repositories. If you're familiar with the apt package manager you coul

Ubuntu is just one of the many distros derived from Debian; some apps even share the same repositories. If you're familiar with the apt package manager you could jump straight back to Debian without noticing much differences, although you may have to spend some time to configure your desktop manager of choice (XFCE for example defaults to absolutely ugly settings). On Debian you can choose among Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Mate, LXDE, ... during install but any of them plus others can be installed afterwards, and if you change the desktop manager after installing applications, that won't be a problems since all will inherit the applications menu and some other customizations. The user can also use a different desktop manager at each login, but that integration is true also for any other Linux distro. If you don't care about changing package manager, however, I've found Manjaro to be really clean and easy to set up. It appears to have "a bit less knobs" than Debian, but they do their work nicely: very good for desktop applications.