“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)
Having multiple release channels is amazing
Yay more work for devs
I would prefer to have multiple channels so people can test upcoming builds of my software for bugs. It would just be a matter of changing the ci/cd that alot of projects have now to publish in different places depending on the git branch
Flatpaks already work everywhere including on canonical’s OSes, snaps don’t work in containerised systems due to nesting
The biggest betefit of flatpaks was no longer having to package your software multiple times, so we don’t publish snaps for the open source projects I maintain