[neuromute]

Canonical really seem to have lost their mojo. They've had a long-running tendency to forge on ahead regardless with fingers in ears, instead of listening to their userbase about what they actually want. Forcing snaps on users being a prime example of this behaviour. As a consequence, many users are jumping ship to other distros, and who can blame them?

In fact, I'm in the same camp. I'm imminently replacing a very nearly EOL 18.04 install with Arch. I've tried a non-trivial amount of distros over the course of my Linux days (since Fedora Core 5) and Ubuntu has probably seen the most install time over that period, but my time with Ubuntu is now at an end. Snaps suck.

[FullyFunctional]

I agree completely with all of that. My added difficulty is that I use a lot of hosts and they are a mix of AMD64, Arm, Arm64, and RV64GC so having a single distribution on all simplifies my life. Ubuntu in my experience has the best support for that set, but I experimented with Arch, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE as well. I'd welcome insights, but Fedora appears most promising for me with Debian a close 2nd. (Arch is actually awesome, but package support is very mixed).