I’ve been specifically avoiding Ubuntu because of snaps, innstead preferring Ubuntu derivatives that don’t use it, like Mint and Pop.

And more recently, trying an entirely different approach with Arch.

And yes - I could get rid of snaps in Ubuntu if I wanted. But everything is just a little more annoying when you are going against the conventions of your distro.

I could.

Though I suppose it may be semantically more appropriate to say that Ubuntu is Debian with snaps (and with a bunch of other stuff too)