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I've upgraded Arch machines after a year offline and it sounds like that was less painful.

Ubuntu has been making some interesting choices lately.

I found lxd very appealing in the beginning, but when they favoured snap as distribution channel, where, apparently, updates and restarts could only be blocked using the firewall [0], I moved away from it. And Ubuntu in general.

[0] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...

I liked LXD but had the same issues.

I think OpenSUSE and Alpine have it in their repos as not-snaps now.

Honestly, I could have packaged it myself, but it eroded my trust in the ecosystem. They seem to target a different use case. Which is fine by me, I just won't be in for the ride.

Not true any longer. Debian has been officially [1] supporting LXD Debian packages [2] since September last year. And you can add this APT repo [3] — which follows the same Debian recipes - into your sources.list to install LXD natively with APT.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LXD

[2] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/lxd

[3] https://apt.calenhad.com/

>Ubuntu has been making some interesting choices lately.

Interesting like the Chinese Curse...true ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...

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