I see you edited this substantially, but outdated info remains outdated. So, before, you said: > Feel free to provide information that proves otherwise. OK,

I see you edited this substantially, but outdated info remains outdated. So, before, you said: > Feel free to provide information that proves otherwise. OK, then, I will. Here's a story I researched and wrote myself about a 3rd party store: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/rudra_sarsawat_ubuntu_projects/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/rudra_sarsawat_ubuntu... Here's his announcement: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/lol-an-open-source-snap-server-implementation/27109 https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/lol-an-open-source-snap-server-... I attended last year's Ubuntu Summit. There were multiple talks on Snap. Here's my report: https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/09/canonical_conference/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/09/canonical_conference/ One talk was by Viktor Petersson: https://www.screenly.io/blog/author/vpetersson/ https://www.screenly.io/blog/author/vpetersson/ This is his company, Screenly: https://www.screenly.io/ https://www.screenly.io/ Screenly does autonomous remote managed digital signes, running Ubuntu Core. As you probably know Core has no other packaging format than Snap: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/17/ubuntu_core_22/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/17/ubuntu_core_22/ So Screenly needs to distribute updates as Snaps, and in his talk, Petersson talked about the issues around that in some detail, including that Screenly runs & hosts its own private Snap store for this, and that it's built 100% from components in the Ubuntu repos. I also talked to the developer of the Snap format, and the Ubuntu desktop lead, and they told me that they keep their store closed as a security measure, but it's perfectly possible to run your own.