“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)

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    Vendor and community support too. It’s a significant reason why it’s often the second OS option at corps after Windows.