Hmm, let's see if I can do this without too much hand-waving on my part lol. To be fair, most of what I like about the debian-testing backend will probably not

Hmm, let's see if I can do this without too much hand-waving on my part lol. To be fair, most of what I like about the debian-testing backend will probably not apply to your family (Based upon the "...they can just use it without thinking about it..." part of your comment). Probably the biggest thing I like about debian-testing as opposed to ubuntu is the rolling releases. I really don't like the "run `do-release-upgrade` and cross your fingers" method of upgrading. For the most part though, the ubuntu-backed version seemed to "fight" me when I would get into my "mucking-around" modes. I know, I know, it's all linux underneath, but I just find the debian version so much easier to customize.