I switched away from Ubuntu when they started putting advertisements in the motd and login screens.

That didn't bother me much as it is "advertisement" about things related to my system.

What I did not like was Firefox taking 20s to start.

No I’m not talking about useful things like last login, average cpu, etc. they were advertising their cloud products.

Ubuntu has (used to at least) ads as apps in the app launcher, served by canonical and not at all related to the software you're using.

Moved back to Debian because of lxc on Ubuntu requiring snaps. Turns out same problem on Debian. Snapd consumes 100% cpu. All. The. Time. Hoping Bookworm will solve it. Else I will be moving to Archlinux, which has lxc without snapd.

I don't think lxc on Debian has ever needed snapd?

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/lxc

lxd (not just lxc) is now also available as a deb package in debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/LXD

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768073

They're probably running lxd (which is only packaged for snap as far as I know), lxd is controlled by the "lxc" command (which isn't part of lxc...).

Ah. This questionable decision is why I abandoned LXC for Docker (initially) and eventually Podman/k8s.

The "lxc" command runs lxd, you need to run "lxc-'command'" for actual lxc.

Interesting - I don't observe such behavior with snap/lxd on my Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 boxes.

Not a heavy user though - maximum 15-20 VEs (virtual enforcements) per server.

Bookworm now has lxd as natively packaged deb's in the main repository. It's very nice to setup.