I used to use Ubuntu, but over time I began to accumulate a series of grievances. The final straw for me came when they made Firefox a Snap. Then I did a bit of distro hopping, trying out Manjaro, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, but none of those really satisfied me and they had their issues too. Then I tried Mint and I knew I had found my new home. Mint to me feels like the idealized version of Ubuntu: stable but not out of date, comes with good software, and easy to use. All of this without the corporate nonsense of Ubuntu.