<story><title>LXD is now under Canonical</title><url>https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>totallywrong</author><text>Stéphane Graber&amp;#x27;s work is fantastic and LXD had a lot of potential. But Canonical managed to drive me away from it with that abomination called Snap and its auto updates that could bring down a cluster without warning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>It is really sad that more people aren&amp;#x27;t aware of LXD, because it is a really good solution of a number of projects and it&amp;#x27;s really well done.&lt;p&gt;On Snap... Even if you like Snaps packages, I can&amp;#x27;t imagine that you&amp;#x27;d feel like it&amp;#x27;s a good choice for LXD. For a browser or email client, sure it&amp;#x27;s a solution, I suppose, but for thing like LXD it just adds an entire level over complexity that doesn&amp;#x27;t help. I&amp;#x27;d go so far at to say that Snap packages makes LXD unusable, it&amp;#x27;s simply to complex, to messy. Canonical also have Microk8s (I think) which is packaged as a Snap, rendering it completely useless. The mental overhead required to make it function completely eliminates the point.&lt;p&gt;It also completely ignores highly regulated businesses, because Snap does not care and will just roll out an update whenever it feel like it.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t particularly like Snap, but I can see the use on desktops. For the server  side... I don&amp;#x27;t know anyone who&amp;#x27;d thinks it&amp;#x27;s neat.</text></comment>
<story><title>LXD is now under Canonical</title><url>https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>totallywrong</author><text>Stéphane Graber&amp;#x27;s work is fantastic and LXD had a lot of potential. But Canonical managed to drive me away from it with that abomination called Snap and its auto updates that could bring down a cluster without warning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>Yeah I&amp;#x27;m setting up a Debian 12 Bookworm machine right now after ~13 years of being an Ubuntu user&lt;p&gt;So far it&amp;#x27;s very snappy!  My Ubuntu 18.04 machine somehow &amp;quot;rotted&amp;quot; in ways that previous installs didn&amp;#x27;t -- everything became slow and janky, sorta like Windows&lt;p&gt;And I specifically installed 18.04 in 2021, to avoid Snaps&lt;p&gt;But now it looks like Debian will work great</text></comment>