Stéphane Graber's work is fantastic and LXD had a lot of potential. But Canonical managed to drive me away from it with that abomination called Snap and its auto updates that could bring down a cluster without warning.
Yeah I'm setting up a Debian 12 Bookworm machine right now after ~13 years of being an Ubuntu user
So far it's very snappy! My Ubuntu 18.04 machine somehow "rotted" in ways that previous installs didn't -- everything became slow and janky, sorta like Windows
And I specifically installed 18.04 in 2021, to avoid Snaps
But now it looks like Debian will work great
As a stepping stone out of Ubuntu, Pop_OS! has been pleasant and snap-free.
I will use them, at least for a while, when their currently in development Rust desktop env is out. Super curious how that pans out (as traditionally all popular GUI libs are very OO).
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch