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Thank God mint exists so everyone has a viable snap-free alternative.
Wish they'd drop it already.
The thing with Ubuntu is: Every single one of their releases since 2008 had a "I wish they'd drop this" thing.
What people want is a preconfigured Debian with newer packages and non-free Codecs.
But that's not what Canonical wants. They use Debian as base to build off of its millions of volunteer work-hours, but very much try to commercialize and monetize their product.
It sounds like people want Mint?
Mint with default KDE would be the perfect beginner distro.