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Hate pro, but more than that - hate Snap! Switched to Mint and couldn't be happier, it was seamless. I already only use none of Ubuntu defaults, so switching to mint and copying my dotfiles was almost as if I didn't even do anything. On my other machine, I just uninstalled Snap, which is close, but I feel like switching to Mint entirely would be even better. I just can't bring myself to backup everything to do a fresh install.