Ubuntu is really polished these days. I rock Kubuntu myself and just migrated my Dad to it from Win 10 (no Win 11 on that box).
I have two members of staff who have asked me to migrate them over. I just need to get "drive mappings" stable and it looks like SMB over QUIC might do the trick.
Canonical show no signs of going evil empire and even if they did there are plenty of options, starting with Debian!
Here's to hoping they don't turn into Microsoft one day.