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I'm hearing and feeling the bad vibes towards Ubuntu, but they've not done anything to totally ruffle my feathers just yet. I went full Ubuntu with about 10 servers and 2 desktops. I don't mind snaps, but my senses are heightened after the red hat shebackle, so considered a next move in case Ubuntu disappoints me with these enterprise decisions. I'm happy to accept an immutable distro like they have planned, but with snaps being proprietary what would that make the distro? Hmm. Do I need to reconsider snaps?
I heard canonical took lxd in house, however I thought it was canonical anyway, and i use lxd a lot, so I'm concerned there's a play they are going to make.. If the red hat thing never happened, I'd probably not have had much concern, but... Red hat thing did happen, and so did reddit. Anyway, hopefully it's just a little paranoia from recent events. 😬
Canonical is a company, so they have their own direction which might not be aligned with a chunk of the community. I can understand and respect that. What irks me is that they are trying to force something upon their user.
I don't hate Ubuntu; I still recommend it to new users. But decisions like this is making me reconsider that stance.