[mort96]

Yeah, that's the kind of stuff which has made Ubuntu Core rub me the wrong way before this. I'm a much bigger fan of Yocto[1], with something like Rauc[2] for the software upgrade system. It's more work to get going, but in the end, you're in control of your product, not Canonical.

[1]: https://www.yoctoproject.org/

[2]: https://rauc.io/

[voakbasda]

I have spent years developing systems using Yocto, and it's a steep learning curve for the average developer. Maintaining a proper distribution is not trivial. However, communities exist that want to band together and create distributions that meet their common set of focused needs, and Yocto would be perfect for many of those use cases.

Of course, take my opinion with a grain of salt. I am currently developing a tool at my day job to significantly lower the developer time required to produce and regularly release our Yocto-based distributions. I hope to be able to release that package as open source at some point.

In any case, Yocto is infinitely better than Ubuntu's Snap Crap.