I've been recommending Mint/Cinnamon over Ubuntu for years now. Its wifi widget does not do this, nor does it use snap.

I jumped on the Linux bandwagon with my main work laptop last week, when my perfectly fine (I thought) Windows 11 installation nuked itself without warning (possibly related to merely opening Teams).

I somewhat randomly chose Mint, and a few oddities aside; it’s been a pretty good experience.

I was really surprised with how well polished Mint is. Everything worked out of the box very snappy.

Mint is really polished