diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate-release.yml b/.github/workflows/validate-release.yml
index 644515ff3618..af9c64ec7542 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate-release.yml
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ jobs:
       - run: git config --system --add safe.directory /__w/cosign/cosign
       - name: check disk space
         run: df -h
-      - name: goreleaser snapshot
-        run: make snapshot
+      - name: goreleaser snapshot-linux
+        run: make snapshot-linux
         env:
           PROJECT_ID: honk-fake-project
           RUNTIME_IMAGE: gcr.io/distroless/static:debug-nonroot
diff --git a/release/release.mk b/release/release.mk
index e6b32de6ef46..68589f0eb1c6 100644
--- a/release/release.mk
+++ b/release/release.mk
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ sign-release-images: ko
 # used when need to validate the goreleaser
 .PHONY: snapshot
 snapshot:
-	LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" goreleaser release --skip-sign --skip-publish --snapshot --clean --timeout 120m --parallelism 1 || true
+	GOOS=linux LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" goreleaser release --skip-sign --skip-publish --snapshot --clean --timeout 120m --parallelism 1
+
+.PHONY: snapshot-linux
+snapshot-linux:
+	GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" goreleaser release --skip-sign --skip-publish --snapshot --clean --timeout 120m --parallelism 1
 
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 # copy image to GHCR