Been using debian for more than a decade and "it just works" has become truer every year. It's a good distro, if you have no principle objections against systemd (which I do, but am too lazy to do anything about).

The one thing I am not happy about: Audio drivers on a Desktop computer

• works out of the box, but then messes up when selecting input devices from:
• line in
• headphones in
• USB camera microphone
• Audio in "sinks" - I believe those are channels allowing for active noise cancelling / preventing Audio feedback loops I had a whole lot of trouble with pulseaudio selecting the correct source when trying to use my mic in the browser.

On a Laptop, I've never experienced such issues, as all devices are integrated (apart from the headphones jack, I guess).

Just when I got familiar enough with pulseaudio, they replaced it with "pipewire", which fucked up output devices:

• works on boot
• when I plug in headphones: it messes up the Audio output to HDMI and I have to manually re-select (on desktop environment) the headphones
• when I then touch the volume control (GUI), the output goes silent again and I have to select the "Port" headphones for the "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" under "Output Devices"

drives me crazy since the last update - but it's only an issue when using headphones, so for now I am living with it.