Besides snaps it has a good mix of things. I am more familiar with apt, it tends to have better hardware support than it's peers, makes it easy to run proprietary codecs or drivers, has a lot of packages and repos.

I recently switched to Debian to get away from Ubuntu CONSTANTLY forcing the Firefox snap over the Deb I purposefully installed. It's fine but I keep running into little things like the kernel being too old for my GPU, missing codecs for Zoom, etc. It's a little irritating in that regard. I guess I could have picked Mint but it still had an older kernel so even then it wouldn't have been trouble free.

I would still be on Ubuntu if it just respected Firefox being a Deb. I tried many guides and times to get it to not use the snap and nothing worked on 24.04 so I gave up. I wouldn't even care if the snap version at least operated the same as the deb version.