For a tiling wm, I'd not prefer Ubuntu. Ubuntu works best when you just accept the default way of doing things.
I'm inclined to agree with another poster that maybe you should check out Debian. I only have the caveat that, in my past experience (maybe it's different 10-15 years later) the distro annoyed me sometimes with the rigor of its anti-proprietary stance. Software which I expected to be available in the package manager turned out to be unavailable because the license wasn't up to debian standards. I like the gentoo approach that, although only Free Software is available by default, you can still add overrides for specific packages.
I guess if debian doesn't work out, you can always try Ubuntu, Arch Linux, or Void. Distro-hopping exists as a trope for a reason :)
I'm inclined to agree with another poster that maybe you should check out Debian. I only have the caveat that, in my past experience (maybe it's different 10-15 years later) the distro annoyed me sometimes with the rigor of its anti-proprietary stance. Software which I expected to be available in the package manager turned out to be unavailable because the license wasn't up to debian standards. I like the gentoo approach that, although only Free Software is available by default, you can still add overrides for specific packages.
I guess if debian doesn't work out, you can always try Ubuntu, Arch Linux, or Void. Distro-hopping exists as a trope for a reason :)