alt Hacker NewsI love multipass. It is a simple no BS virtualization solution and probably the best thing to come out of Ubuntu after LXD.
But I can't use it. You know why? Because despite being open source Canonical wont tell you how to compile it and install it as a standalone program. Instead all their documentation says "install via snap"... even if your are on fedora or debian or arch:
https://github.com/canonical/multipass
Snap needs to die, it is hurting everybody including canonical
They do document how to build and run, in the OS specific build docs. Eg this: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/blob/main/BUILD.linux...
I think pointing end users to use the end user packaged app is fine, as is to trust people who are comfortable with building from source to find the build docs from the repo.