Heh. It's been long enough since I tried that I don't remember. Hence the lack of details in my post.
I do remember that I had planned on fully switching to Debian (it seemed odd to me to use a distro based on Debian instead of just Debian), but ran into enough issues that it was better to just stick with Ubuntu.
Reevaluating Debian is on my todo list for when I have time. It's been long enough that the issues I ran into before will hopefully be gone. Or maybe I'll have changed how I do things in a way that avoids those issue.