It's interesting, because around 2004-06 was when I struggled mightily with hardware issues, especially audio, and Chris Siebenmann was the one who urged me to

It's interesting, because around 2004-06 was when I struggled mightily with hardware issues, especially audio, and Chris Siebenmann was the one who urged me to "install Ubuntu and be done with it." And Ubuntu really was the value-add, turnkey solution for someone who needed a desktop system as "daily driver" without endless tinkering and custom fixes. But by 2018, Ubuntu was making enough proprietary additions that I didn't need, and I began to notice Debian's maturity and feature parity. But Debian still had a reputation for being extremely stable. So some new installs were Debian, and in 2018 when I purchased a Lenovo notebook, some were Ubuntu-certified, and I chose Red Hat certified, which ultimately ran Fedora quite smoothly. (There were no BSD-certified notebooks.)