Just a quick comment from a developer. One thing I love about Ubuntu is ease of installation and support for non-free firmware. Yes, I'm a horrible person for using non-free firmware. But I dislike how ancient packages in Ubuntu-LTR tend to be. After playing with Debian/Unstable and Debian/Testing, I moved back to Ubuntu-LTR, but now do all my development in a VMs with a recent version of FreeBSD or stock Debian (but mostly FreeBSD.)
I do almost exclusively server development, so I don't know if this would work well if you were developing OpenGL or Vulkan desktop apps, so your mileage may vary. (Or maybe someone can tell me OpenGL or Vulkan support across a VM boundary isn't as dramatic as I am assuming it is.)
I do almost exclusively server development, so I don't know if this would work well if you were developing OpenGL or Vulkan desktop apps, so your mileage may vary. (Or maybe someone can tell me OpenGL or Vulkan support across a VM boundary isn't as dramatic as I am assuming it is.)