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it won't. ubuntu's announcement pertains to the extra demands of gnome, their flagship release, and it's default configuration.
mint doesn't ship a gnome spin, and cinnamon, mate and xfce are lighter-weight.. and mint is not dependent upon snaps, nor is it even configured oob with snap support enabled.