You might want to consider jumping ship and go into the RHEL/CentOS world.

Stability and predictability is their main strenght. Each release is supported for a veeeeery long time.

Stability and predictability of the core OS. But then everyone uses EPEL for everything else which throws that all out the window.

Uhm, yes and no.

I mean... As long as you don't use EPEL, stability and predictability are pretty much granted.

I've been using epel on some machine and haven't had that many problems, though.

If you're running Ubuntu's server, odds are that you're SSH-ing into the box instead of running graphical interface. Unless you specifically install snaps, I don't see how this would affect you.

Perfect. So I guess that means APT is still the same, correct?

Yeah apt is still fine and I've never seen it update anything behind my back.

Yup, snaps are littering Ubuntu Server 20.04. They're in 18.04 as well, for that matter. Maybe not quite as much, but they're there.

only if you install your server applications using snap

So, why are people getting upset about this then? If you can simply just _not use snaps_?

I'm guessing it's not an option when using the GUI?

I was using the regular version for remote desktop VMs. I don't know about the server version.