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

[Bret Busby]

On 12/1/24 16:53, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:26:34 +0000, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 at 16:48, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>
>>> So, out of interest, what is the difference between (that) Zinc and the
>>> XFCE implementation of Linux Mint?
>>
>> Mint also removes Snap, of course, but it replaces it with Flatpak.
>>
>> Zinc removes both, adds native support for Appimages, and it offers
>> two better native package managers for the command line. The "nala"
>> command does all the usual stuff, but faster and easier. The "deb-get"
>> command will find 3rd party stuff that's not in the repos and
>> install/update it for you.
>>
>> It's Xubuntu, with a nicer desktop setup, and better .deb package
>> management tools with none of the controversial cross-distro package
>> stuff.
>>
> 
> Since it has now disappeared and been replaced by "Asmi 23.10 (Formerly Zinc)"
> can one rely on it being available for any sustained time period???
> 
> 
whilst I am aware of PC-BSD (which could have become good, it it was got 
to work on PC's) was renamed to PureOS (a name that did not relate to 
what it was supposed to be), then subsequently abandoned, I assume that 
the "been replaced by "Asmi 23.10 (Formerly Zinc)", is a simple renaming 
of the OS, to separate it from the misleading previous name of Zinc 
(element number 30, group 2, in the Periodic Table of the elements), and 
therefore (in theory, at least), should not affect the longevity of the OS.

Why entities feel the need to use obscurantism in the naming of such 
things as operating systems (why was it not named Zinc Linux, or, now, 
Asmi Linux, to indicate what it is, instead of now appearing to be 
simply the multiple name of a bug?), I do not know - perhaps, it is to 
be increasingly aloof from, and, concealed from, users and prospective 
users.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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