“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)

  • jayandp@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

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        Yeah, Linux users have always had a blind spot for dependency hell when talking about freedom of choice.

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          I think it affects a sliver of the community that lies above the complete novice, but not quite technically adept. The place that gives you a feeling that you have knowledge but you haven’t reached the level where you understand how much you don’t know. I think that’s the place which breeds this sort of sentiment we see around this issue.