LXD is a legit product. Too bad they only ship it as snaps. I think Debian finally has packages for it but I haven't tested it. I actually stopped using it because I don't want to use an Ubuntu stewarded project. More and more it's getting harder to use plain lxc. Almost all resources are talking about it in an lxd context nowadays.
Same as on Desktop. They are terribly slow, resource hungry, update automatically.
On a bit older desktop I have seen it take 5-10 seconds just to start Chromium. And not the initial start after fresh install, it happens every single time. Meanwhile Flatpak or local packages start instantly on the same machine.
Sounds like a SRE nightmare. Updates happening when you didn't expect them guarantees problems. I'm starting to get a clearer picture of Canonical now.
That said, if they are working very hard to ensure that the updates don't break anything, then this is perfectly fine. Are they doing that? Has anyone been bitten by a bad Linux daemon update? Unless things are breaking in reality, it's foolish to dismiss snaps on the server outright.
Well snaps are supposed to be this great server feature because you can install whatever great program from whatever other distro ecosystem using snaps… or something
