Debian's release cycle is 2 years. Fedora's is 6 months.

Mint is good too, you get a lot of niceties without snap noise.

I dropped Ubuntu for Debian, then dropped Debian for Fedora and now I'm frankly very very happy.

Ubuntu had hit the proverbial last straw for me when they started shipping even the dumbest things as snap: the fu--ing calculator. Opening the calculator (a 250kb binary) took 10-15 seconds because snap had to download the images, mount layers etc. I never hated a linux distro so much.

Debian was fine but very stale, and a lot of things i use every day were broken or non functional. Particularly Firefox and bluetooth stuff.

Fedora... It's just great. Software is fresh but very stable. Anything bluetooth works. Whole distro-upgrades don't break my system.

Updating Ubuntu basically always meant reinstalling everything. At some point i was going LTS to LTS.

I'm not going back to Debian/Ubuntu.

I went pop for simplicity and enjoy it.

I've run a bunch of Linux distros since the late 90s. Pop is the sweet spot for me, so far.

It's a lil outdated but it's a rad lil distro.

Oh, that's very true. The bigger problem is all the stuff I forgot to back up :)

  install_firefox() {
      source /etc/os-release
      printf "Package: snapd
  Pin: release a=\*
  Pin-Priority: -10" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
      sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mozillateam/ppa
      sudo apt update -y
      sudo apt install -y -t 'o=LP-PPA-mozillateam' firefox
      printf "%s" "Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: \"LP-PPA-mozillateam:${UBUNTU_CODENAME}\";" | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox
      printf "Package: firefox\*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
  Pin-Priority: 501" | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa
  }

  remove_snaps() {
      sudo snap remove --purge firefox
      sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
      sudo snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
      sudo snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd-desktop-integration
      sudo snap remove --purge bare
      sudo snap remove --purge core20
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd
      sudo apt remove --autoremove snapd -y
  
      cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
  # To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of Snap,
  # this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
  # For more information: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html
  
  Package: snapd
  Pin: release a=*
  Pin-Priority: -10
  EOF
      sudo umount /var/snap
  }

Why not use Linux Mint? It’s Ubuntu with additional polish and no snaps.