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Better out-of-the-box hardware support, in my experience. We have a machine learning server at work, it didn't see the GPUs on Debian Bullseye with the driver versions specified by the manufacturer, but worked perfectly with Ubuntu Server out of the box.
A distribution that is preconfigured by professionals has great value in a practical setting, even if that value has diminished in the eyes of the kind of person that Lemmy attracts. If I had tried to get Debian working by overruling the manufacturer's instructions, I'd have to take responsibility for it, both its maintenance and the downtime and potential damage if I had fucked something up. With Ubuntu, I get to delegate at least part of the responsibility to Canonical (while covering my own ass), and that's something you can't backport.
This was five years ago, but yes, better out of the box hardware support. I tried installing Debian on my MacBook and Debian (or the Debian installer, don't remember) booted to a black screen. Ubuntu worked out of the box for everything but the webcam and I still use it to this day.
In case you wanted your MacBook camera back, this worked like a charm for me on Ubuntu.
https://andreafortuna.org/2024/08/24/from-faceless-to-facetime-installing-webcam-drivers-on-a-debian-powered-macbook-air
Mine was a Pro but I did follow similar if not the same steps. For whatever reason I couldn't get it to persist over reboots but I did get it working for a while. Didn't need it really on that laptop.
Thanks though!