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It seems that Canonical likes to spend a lot of resources on building projects on their own and put them into Ubuntu, only to discontinue them for another solution after some amount of years.
They're currently pushing hard for their snap packages. It isn't a bad concept per se but their Snap Store server is closed source, with no alternatives repositories so far. There are also other options, like Flatpak, which is more widespread, and fully open.
Understood mate, thx for your help I will think about it, beside snap thing, there is something else concerning about Ubuntu?
Not much that I can think of. I used it until a few years ago, and the experience was pretty good.
Thx for you help mate 👍👍