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I used Ubuntu for a long time. It was a pretty grounded concept, 6 month cycles to mostly snapshot debian testing with a nice installer and "I just want stuff to work" approach to non-free codecs and drivers.
When they went Unity as default, it was pretty dumb but no matter, switching desktop environments was no huge deal, or starting with a different spin like Kubuntu.
They added snap, and initially, no huge deal, since if there was something that won't work with the snap, then I generally could just use apt.
Then they made the 'dpkg' firefox just force snap, breaking some interop I used, with the snap isolation just being too much. The guides all involved all sorts of big PITA of the sort that ran counter of my whole "I just don't want to have to think about it and fight my distribution". So I went to Fedora, which at least has seemed to gotten mostly more practical about making non-free easier, and the presence of flatpak remains quite optional and can use it when it makes sense, or ignore it and still have a solid experience without thinking.