I feel like the introduction of snap/flatpak has seriously degraded the Linux desktop experience. Yes, I understand the on-paper advantages: but it's been several years now and I'm still constantly dealing with tiny papercuts, weird containerisation bugs, and not knowing which of the many different package managers I should use to install a piece of software.
A few months ago I got an old Thinkpad up and running again to use on my commute. It's got a pretty tiny SSD on it so to save on disk space I decided I'd install a distro that leans into system-wide packages instead of containers.
I've been very careful to only install things from system repositories (with a few minor exceptions for things I've installed from source).
A few months later and things are going great. I spend much less time fucking around trying to make things work. It's blissful.