Ubuntu Desktop will eventually switch to Snappy packages by default, while continuing to provide deb-based images as an alternative, at least for a while. I’m sure this doesn’t come as a surprise for some of you, but further details regarding this have been revealed today.
Will Cooke, Ubuntu Desktop Manager at Canonical, posted a notice for Ubuntu Desktop Next users which mentions that for 15.10, the plan is to have “a build based on Snappy Personal and so the current .deb based Desktop Next image will be going away and will be replaced with the new Snappy version”.
Since Will’s notice was pretty vague, it raised quite a few questions, especially regarding the future of Ubuntu Desktop and Michael Hall from Canonical tried to answer some of them on.