I share the concerns about snaps. Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I actually started using as my daily driver in 2005, and I've been using it ever since. At first I used to upgrade all the minor releases, these days I'm just on whichever LTS release. It's funny how over the years I know less and less about Linux. It just works.

Why have you chosen OpenSUSE and how has your experience been? I've been eyeing Debian, as it's pretty similar and I already have it on a server. My main concern with switching to a completely different distro would be that the packages are sometimes named differently.

Or I could switch to NixOS if I wanted things to be actually better, but the idea that I'd have to spend time nurturing my system just doesn't sound that appealing in 2022.