Same experience, switched to Debian last year. Funny enough, things just work. Like we used to say about Ubuntu. Snaps made me wary about flatpaks, but they're

Same experience, switched to Debian last year. Funny enough, things just work. Like we used to say about Ubuntu. Snaps made me wary about flatpaks, but they're ok, much better startup time, though using way too much storage. I had to take it one step further and switch to Debian Testing to get certain packages, and somehow the experience of installing updates is still better than Ubuntu. Go figure.