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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is currently super popular for servers. Any thoughts on whether 20.04 is a worthy upgrade for servers, or just a pain? Snaps in particular sound good for desktops but not servers.

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If you use LXD, then LXD is provided as a snap. Snap is currently the only packaging for LXD in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

I think the Ubuntu 20.04 runtime should be better than Ubuntu 18.04. More fixes, new features and updated versions of packages.

There are definitely snaps that are useful on servers, like LXD and Nextcloud.

Having them auto update and restart daemon services are not good for servers though.

I disagree. I like having Nextcloud auto-update, even if it results in a service restart. I just schedule that for a time of day that isn't very disruptive. As for LXD, restarting the LXD daemon doesn't effect the containers (they continue running).

It's about having a choice though.

Oh hey, I get it. That wasn't the point of the parent to which I was responding, though. I was merely trying to share that snaps are just as useful for server as for desktop, that's all.

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