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I think it’s really smart for projects like Linux Mint to keep actively maintained distros off of Ubuntu or Gnome or whatever. Give the user the option, but have a fallback.

I’m not optimistic canonical is going to just turn back from this path of Snaps and DRM.

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>Linux Mint to keep actively maintained distros off of Ubuntu or Gnome

you mean Linux Mint Debian Edition, yes it is exactly the reason they keep it going; who knows what Canonical might do tomorrow. Ubuntu is no longer "Linux for Human Beings"

I’m biased because my first experience with Ubuntu was so bad that ut put me off of Linux for literally a decade.

Now, I get the impression that Ubutnu is far more important for backend than frontend. So, yea, “for humans” not so much. That is what I think Pop and Mint are doing well with.

The positive part of snaps, and I don't like snaps for myself, is that snaps keep updating on an unmaintained server. So as a default for VPS providers seeking to hand hold users Ubuntu perhaps makes sense.

At least that's what I understand.

However on a server I use Debian (stable) as I purposefully don't want to be at the 'cutting edge'. [I also use Debian on my laptop because it just works.]

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