Mint disables snaps because they require Canonicals proprietary servers, essentially making them not open source.
This is my preferred order of package sources, with #1 being my preferred source, and then #2 being my preferred next option
1. Distro repos
2. Official PPA (for latest versions of software)
3. Appimage using the "zap" appimage manager mentioned in this post.
https://primal.net/e/note1thmf6h653lwy507fpgenrc8a409azxfa339vdq0kf3f3x732gf6q3d7ygh
4. Flatpak as last resort.