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For the ones I imported it seems like the location data is still there

https://takeout.google.com/

Export your photos with take out

Then use immich-go to import

https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

Ubuntu is based on Debian, by the nature of that it will have more things than Debian.

Ubuntu generally has more cutting Edge features and tools by the nature of what it is, but the company supporting it also is pushing snap files for compatability containers which may or may not be your cup of tea.

Debians official packages can sometimes be a tad older since their ideology is stability over everything else.

A popular hypervisor distro proxmox uses Debian as the base for it’s great stability.