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Nice! I started using it just this week. I built a computer to serve as NAS with Debian and ZFS.
I'm also considering moving my Ubuntu based server to Debian; it gets too many package updates that I frankly don't care about, plus even Ubuntu server feels a bit bloated.
I moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu a few years ago precisely to reduce my workload; I just wanted it to work... and now I'm considering Debian for the same reason.
Something a Gentoo user might care about is the distro's compile time options. Ubuntu uses -O2 and LTO, Debian uses -O1. Debian has always been noticably slower overall for me.
Don't do what I did and go with Tumbleweed. It gets more updates than Arch.
It's not that difficult to build your own kernel based on the official debian one: https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official
It doesn't make much of a difference in the kernel, but I definitely notice it on Debian's Firefox vs Flatpak.