For all of Canonical's faults (e.g. snap really seems like a bad technology), Ubuntu is still a Linux distribution and if you don't like a certain thing, you ca

For all of Canonical's faults (e.g. snap really seems like a bad technology), Ubuntu is still a Linux distribution and if you don't like a certain thing, you can always swap things out. If you don't like GNOME, use KDE, Xfce or any other DE. If the firefox snap takes forever to load, use the flatpak, etc. It's certainly opinionated, but not closed down in the way that macOS or Windows are. I'm still quite happy using Ubuntu and while it's not perfect, I prefer it to other alternatives I've tried (e.g. Linux Mint is too annoying to update with its "only a backup + fresh reinstall is a safe upgrade" policy, Arch requires too much maintenance, etc.).