How to remove all the firefox (and other) cruft in /snap etc.?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 9:38 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 02:23:18PM +0000, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users wrote:
>  [...]
> > Sounds easy enough, but I still don't think I dare!
> > However, I might come to a point when I snap and get rid of this
> > subsystem altogether.
> >
> It also gets rid of all those loop devices that clutter up fdisk and
> drive listings, snap really is pain.  Other 'snap like' systems such
> as AppImage don't produce all this junk. I only ever used Firefox that
> was snap based and stopped using it quite a while ago but I've been
> frustrated by the messy snap legacy ever since, until now.  I have
> several AppImage based programs (digikam, drawio, vivaldi) but they
> cause no issues at all, why can't Ubuntu/Canonical just drop snap,
> it's a disaster.

Oh man, Snap quickly became a lightning rod on the web, and polarized
folks like Emacs vs. Vi.

I found my strong feelings about it went away once I removed it. I
don't give it much thought anymore. I feel like I don't have a dog in
the fight anymore.

Jeff