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I'm an Ubuntu user, I've never bothered to try any other distro and probably never will. in essence, I just want my apps to work.
I have spent countless hours hunting down specific debian packages that the application that I want needs. I never wanted to worry about installing dependencies and worrying that they don't interfere with each other in the first place. I really just want my apps to work.
People have complained that snaps have so much bloat, it runs slower, blah blah blah, I don't care. It works and I'm happy.
This is the usability aspect I occasionally see people overlooking. It's hard to sell me on a solution with ideology alone, if the user experience sucks.
Try Flatpaks.
flatpak basically does the same thing but with a much better performance and less memory footprint, you could try it on ubuntu.