I'm finding Ubuntu Long Term Stable to be a bit lacking in the Stable part lately. Thinking about switching and decided to #asknostr what #linux distros are recommended these days.

Debian seems like the obvious transition. What else is there? I want to be able to tinker when I want to tinker but I also want it to just keep working the way I left it in between uses. Ubuntu has been too crashy. I've been a linux user for decades so I'm not interested in a full grandma safe hand hold first time away from windows distro.

Lots of forum posts equals solid LLM help for my tinkering, so size of userbase is being considered.