I considered pure debian too but it doesn't have as long support as Ubuntu LTS. And release upgrades are difficult in my experience. Ubuntu do-release-upgrade w

I considered pure debian too but it doesn't have as long support as Ubuntu LTS. And release upgrades are difficult in my experience. Ubuntu do-release-upgrade works pretty well. I'm also a bit stuck for the long term server distro thing which is the only thing I still use Ubuntu for.