You might want to try pop. It’s based on Ubuntu, so everything is where you’d expect, but as yet doesn’t come with snapd installed. I was irritated to find out the other day that apt installing chromium did try to install a snap, but it was easy enough to cancel and pop’s excellent GUI package manager got me a flatpak instead. If you’re not ready to hop over to Debian, which is what I use on my servers because of snaps, Pop os is worth a shot.