Why if we see fork, snap always the problem : Canonical LXD forked...
Why if we see fork, snap always the problem : Canonical LXD forked...
"Canonical only having snap releases was harmful to adoption. I liked using lxd, but uninstalled snapd (forgetting lxd used it), and my vms obviously stopped. Snap wouldn't reinstall properly (various inscrutable errors), so I moved it all over to libvirt. I'd still be happily using lxd if it weren't for Canonical's snap-pushing. That's my anecdote of one."
-mkj
(I'm not mkj so..., but I think most users are quite against enforcement of snapd)
Snap seemed like a cool idea until I tried it
It still has the most software support for causal users if you don't want to go the Arch route and trust the AUR. But I think this will change with the rise of Immutable Distros, that will become the standard for people who just want a stable system that works + Flatpaks.
What software do you think casuals use these days? The casual home user wants Chrome and literally nothing more. That's how they can consume YouTube, Spotify, pirate movie streams, and web games. In the last 20 or so years the average PC user has been gradually become more and more computer illiterate. If you are a PC gamer who actually installs games to the hard drive, you're way above the average already.
Vendor and community support too. It's a significant reason why it's often the second OS option at corps after Windows.
Even better, Debian 12 comes with LXD on the repository.
It’s been a while since I’ve used Ubuntu. What happened?
Forcing Snaps, and requiring all official Ubuntu flavors to remove Flatpak support out of the box. You can still install Flatpak support afterwards, but it continues to rub the Linux community the wrong way.
They want Ubuntu users to use snap, which unsurprisingly isn't very popular.
One of the main arguments for picking Ubuntu over Debian was the installation process, but Debian made the installation process much easier, by allowing non-free firmware.
Ubuntu got worse, and Debian got better, anyone unhappy with Ubuntu should just switch to Debian with Gnome and the problem is largely solved.
Snap mainly, at least for me
Much ado about nothing.
True. I installed this OS, deleted a random component without any dependency analysis and it broke. Plz help.