I used Ubuntu in my college for some light programming and felt really happy about it.
I am more interested in switching to Debian 12 than Ubuntu, since the former is really stable. Also, I came to know installing Debian is easier since it supports non free firmware.
Can’t say for testing, but this is s bit of an odd case. In the past received gnome version jumps faster on sid than on arch. However, this time I am still stuck on 43, receiving all sorts of updates on that version, but the jump isn’t happening for whatever reason. So ymmv.