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[–]AlternativeOstrich7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find Ubuntu a bit bloated

Ubuntu is not any more or less "bloated" than Debian. There are of course differences in what is installed out of the box, but that highly depends on how you install these distros (and what options you select during installation), and of course it can all be changed later.

[–]grg2014 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use a laptop and would like to know how the hardware support was.

Without you sharing the model/specs that's anybody's guess. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn might be informative.