Ubuntu and snap

[Alessandro Baggi]

> Not a detailed/direct answer to the above but on my [x]ubuntu systems
> I have simply removed the snap daemon (snapd) and this prevents any
> snap updates etc.  The only software that I (once) used on my systems
> that was updated via snap was Firefox and I have moved to Vivaldi for
> my main browser now so that doesn't matter.
> 

Hi and thank you for your answer.

I know that I can purge snapd, blacklist it and using alternative 
packages like firefox tarball o change browser. I ask because (from what 
I read) Ubuntu will be subject more and more to snap and probably many 
packages will be ported to snap format (example apache2 or postgresql).

If you use PRO, you can't definitely purge snap because kernel live 
patch is on snap and if I'm not wrong also fips packages are on snap 
(correct me if I'm wrong).

So in the future seems that snap could be a requirements for using Ubuntu.

I don't think that actually their are testing snap on LTS for Ubuntu 
Core. Would be great if they will produce a regular Ubuntu LTS with snap 
as alternative and not as default and Ubuntu Core (that is immutable) 
with snap as default but who knows....