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I think Ubuntu is a for-profit company. I think System76 is a for profit company. As a rule, companies tend to respect other companies in ways they don’t respect people.

I think it’s more likely that System76 will rebase to Debian than Ubuntu kick them off, but if Ubuntu really starts pulling out the brass tacks, I don’t think System76 will show any loyalty.

In other words, I think Ubuntu benefits from counting all the Pop!_OS users as part of the Ubuntu family (at least statistics wise), that they’d be killing a golden goose by trying to evict them, even though they’d obviously prefer them to use Snaps.

This is an interesting perspective! So then by that logic, is there a possibility that Canonical will try and pressure System76 to officially switch to snaps over flatpaks?

Lol no way. How could they pressure them? Pop isn’t an official Ubuntu derivative like xubuntu,kubuntu, etc. Canonical only holds sway over those. Anyone else is just another distro.