I use Pop OS (mostly) but there is not a super compelling use case for if you don't want to just go with their defaults. Pop OS is a time saver in the sense tha

I use Pop OS (mostly) but there is not a super compelling use case for if you don't want to just go with their defaults. Pop OS is a time saver in the sense that it gives you a bunch of things out of the box (disk encryption, tiling window manager, NVIDIA drivers, Apple-like recovery partition in case anything goes wrong, etc) that you could set up yourself, but don't have to. You can basically set up Ubuttnu or most other common Linuxes to be just like Pop OS by spending a few hours on it. For people using another distro without customizing it much after the installer is done, then I would usually recommend Pop OS. I think it's the best "out of the box" Linux for most general-purpose computing like programming, email/web, Slack, etc. But if you already switched to Debian and are happy, then there's probably no huge benefit to moving to Pop unless you are sick of tinkering and just want automatic system updates that keep you pretty up to date with recent kernels and packages without you having to do anything.