Yeah, Snap is the reason I will be moving away from Ubuntu. Mint in my opinion can suffer some of the same issues and they will too have to address the Snap iss

Yeah, Snap is the reason I will be moving away from Ubuntu. Mint in my opinion can suffer some of the same issues and they will too have to address the Snap issue sooner or later (as they use Ubuntu packages). Something Debian or Arch based sounds nicer by the day. The Snap sandboxing sounds great until you realise it means you can't access hardware reliably and sometimes you can't access files. Snap likes to randomly update and restart stuff you are actively working on. Ubuntu are too heavily invested into Snap now to walk it back. Additionally, I hate Gnome more and more by the day. It's a slow buggy mess and is not worth the bells and whistles for this amount of unreliability. Gnome randomly crashes after over a month of up time. When you see the Gnome blog updates, you only see updates regarding the Cloud, IoT and business interests. The Ubuntu Desktop seems to have taken a back seat these days.