Re: Snaps noy (yet) essential.
After 18.04 you can't install proper Chromium on *buntu, just the abominable version. That's what rules out 20.04 for me.
As I wrote, Linux Mint looks OK, but it's like stepping back ten years or more in Xubuntu - quite apart from crashing my Thinkpads it has many, many rough edges. Networking is spectacularly unstable, for example.