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I recently switched to using debian for my personal computers. It is fantastic. Rock solid. Ubuntu without the silly stuff like default apps as snaps.

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Ubuntu was at its best when it was just Debian with more-sensible defaults for a desktop. Every step away from that, or to try to push boundaries, has just made it worse :-/

So I'm not imagining things. I saw few cases on servers and many on desktop where I was like "I swear that worked fine in any of our Debian instances" (we got around 500 servers/VMs running it).

My recent favourite was how Ubuntu will auto-update packages but... not uninstall old kernel versions so any long running system will inevitably run out of space in /boot at some point and just not boot at one point (till user picks older kernel from the menu).

stable or testing?

I like stable. You can use backports if you need newer versions of specific packages.

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