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Unpopular opinion: I love Ubuntu. No, I don't use snaps at all. I have an Nvidia GPU and it's literally the only OS working out of the box. Yes I tried Debian, I'm too busy to fiddle with drivers. No, I can't get rid of the GPU, I depend on it for critical workflows. I love the minimalism of Gnome. Never liked KDE/Cinnamon honestly, they're too busy for my tastes. For 15 years I've tried other distros and I'm always back on Ubuntu. I'll ride the purple penguin to my grave.
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It certainly seems like public opinion changed the tast ten years or so. As an ubuntu user, could you confirm or deny these claims I've seen? One is that firefox is a snap even if you try to install it with apt. Another is that they show ads to get paid ubuntu in the terminal output?
If you really like Ubuntu, Linux mint Ubuntu version comes with the snap defaults removed.
I really liked Ubuntu back when the color scheme was more brown/orange, it seemed so friendly. The last ten years I've been on Debian though, but LMDE seems interesting.
LMDE is great, it's what I recommend to all new Linux users. Lots of tiny things that remove friction, like not requiring Sudo for apt and showing stars when typing a password.