Will be really interested to see how they progress with this. I know Mint has also been exploring a Debian-based version of their distro, but they explain it mo

Will be really interested to see how they progress with this. I know Mint has also been exploring a Debian-based version of their distro, but they explain it more as something to have in their back pocket in case Ubuntu is no longer a viable option at some point in the future. I hear a lot that the work that Canonical puts into making Ubuntu a reliable, high quality desktop distro would be hard to replicate if distro builders were to move upstream, but I wonder if this is still as true in 2023. The world has enough Ubuntu-based distros at this point, I think, and many of them just feel like re-skins that don't do enough to differentiate themselves. Also, being based on Ubuntu means you are really trapped in their twice year release cycle, whereas building off of sid you could potentially do more frequent releases. I'm not personally a huge fan of rolling releases, but would love a distro that releases semi-frequently (2-3 months vs 6).