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I went to Ubuntu years ago for the availability of packages.

Snaps killed it for me. I moved my daily driver(s) on Fedora a few months after 20.04. It turns out, RPMfusion does have all the packages I want.

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Snaps pissed me off too, and I vowed to switch to another distro (probably Debian) when this installation stopped working. In particular, it annoys the hell out of me when they pull a bait-and-switch by automatically converting `apt install X` commands to `snap install X` for certain popular packages.

...but this Kubuntu system (my primary workstation) has been rock steady for the past ~5 years with no signs of problems. So as annoyed as I am, I gotta hand it to them for keeping things working smoothly.

I'm really enjoying Pop! OS. It's Ubuntu (and I installed the default ubuntu-desktop over Pop's), but it has its own "store" with .debs and flatpaks, no snaps. It's still possible to accidentally install a snap, but it's also easy to revert that. It's also very nice how effortlessly the graphics drivers and full-disk encryption work.

I haven't tried Debian on desktop, but it is great for servers.

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