I had used ubuntu back in the day, and when I came back to linux a bit ago I immediately installed it again.

I don't remember all of my frustrations, but I remember having a lot of trouble with snap. Specifically, it really annoyed me that the default install of firefox was the snap version instead of native. I want that to be an opt-in kind of thing. I found that flatpak just worked better anyway.

I almost tried making the switch to arch, but I've been pretty happy running debian sid (unstable) since. The debian installer is just more friendly to me for getting encrypted drives and partitions set up how I want.

It's not for everyone, but I like the structured rolling updates of sid and having access to the debian ecosystem too much to switch to something else at this point.

I use sway with a radeon card for my primary and have a secondary nvidia card for games and AI stuff.

It has its warts, but I love my debian+sway setup