Ubuntu's GUI is bloated and unusable for anyone with a functioning brain that's used a computer in the last 20 years. It's where the avant-garde UX designers went to die.
Unfortunately swapping out desktops is not nearly as easy as it is with stock Debian.
Debian is no better. Setting a static IP if you install a graphical environment is broken and takes much research to resolve, because somehow it's considered normal to install multiple hidden, poorly documented network managers by default that conflict with each other and override with DHCP in this hodgepodge of an OS.
Unfortunately swapping out desktops is not nearly as easy as it is with stock Debian.
Debian is no better. Setting a static IP if you install a graphical environment is broken and takes much research to resolve, because somehow it's considered normal to install multiple hidden, poorly documented network managers by default that conflict with each other and override with DHCP in this hodgepodge of an OS.