[micahflee]

When was the last time you tried Debian on your desktop? It's much better than it used to be. The only piece of hardware that didn't work out of the box for me was wifi, but I just had to enable the nonfree repo to install my wifi driver. Other than that, it's a lot like Ubuntu.

[buster]

Long time ago, i switched to Ubuntu when it arrived. Besides drivers, i still wouldn't want to fiddle around with unstable repos, apt pinning and those long release cycles on my desktop. Nowadays you get PPAs for most stuff you need, that's nice, too. So there is still some additional value that Ubuntu provides. If not that then the arguably larger "Desktop community". Launchpad is a nice-to-have platform as well, in my opinion.