As much as I dislike Ubuntu, I wouldn’t use Fedora, sponsored by Red Hat, a US company, either. LMDE is the way.
Is not Fedora independent of red hat?
Except for the upstream (or downstream since they are bleeding edge) development, I always assume they are isolated from red hat influence.
Iirc, a crapton of RH ppl work on Fedora, since it’s their “sandbox for RHEL” distro.
And while I fuckin’ HATE what IBM/RH BS tries to pull in some areas, it doesn’t prevent me from running Fedora derivatives daily.
Ubuntu is just like Windows now, you have to run a debloater to make it usable.
I use popOS and never had a problem with snaps. They’re not nearly as bad as flatpak. I avoid those like the plague.
Arch time!
There is a reason I put arch on my latest computer. I will give it a few months to be sure but I’m thinking of swicthing. details matter so when printing doesn’t ‘just work’ in one program with a print dialog I know snap is not ready for ubuntus target.