Ah yes, the pretence of democracy continues

Not sure I'd trust a national distribution service (especially in the UK) more though

The fact that there's entire communities full of people who will spend energy trying to convince you to give it a try, rather than a corporation with a marketing budget and lobbying power :)

The "Thank you Mario, but the princess is in another castle" type of win

There's levels to this stuff?

Sounds like the good old fucked bootloader after system update

(Disclaimer: no official diagnosis yet, so I guess this could still have different reasons)

Severe hot flashes and naesea eventually followed by bursts of adrenaline in supermarkets or crowded places (on almost a daily basis).

The fact that I haven't left the house in years without both earplugs and noise-cancelling headphones at hand.

Hey if people wanna play with their lives by talking to me while I'm driving... 😂 That's when I look straight at another car coming onto the intersection and drive straight ahead because I saw it, but that didn't mean it also registered.

And if I don't I'm just going to be thinking about it all night anyway

There are many reasons one could choose to hate Snap packages, and this not one of them. It's like hating a webbrowser because it spawns 20 processes that (the horror) you would all see when you run ps. It's just a part of how container technologies work.

Purist, hard-line stuff like this will honestly just get you nowhere in 2023. I get where you're coming from, but it's simply not realistic. This is what browser extensions are for.

You should, and you will :) X11 is legacy, and is going to die. The only question is whether you're going to try and hold on to a broken system riddled with security vulnerabilities for as long as possible until you're forced to switch, or whether you're just going to enable what is mostly already the default stack on most desktop Linux systems anyway.