Think it’s been maintenance, but the real difference is packages aren’t ancient like they used to be, they’re mostly up to date.
Stuff like the desktop are basically generic compared to Ubuntu’s customization, but they moved to wayland, pipewire, all that stuff which is violent radical by past debian standards.
As up to date as Debian
(Obviously a joke, Debian is great)
Debian is caught up or even past Ubuntu nowadays, shits flipped fr, yo.
Recent update big update or just good maintenance?
Think it’s been maintenance, but the real difference is packages aren’t ancient like they used to be, they’re mostly up to date.
Stuff like the desktop are basically generic compared to Ubuntu’s customization, but they moved to wayland, pipewire, all that stuff which is violent radical by past debian standards.