[xubuntu-users] Just to say THANK YOU to all for the help

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 09:39:05AM -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 6:02 PM Steven Mainor <steve at degga.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have to agree. I no longer use ubuntu because of snap. I personally 
> left the windows/mac ecosystems behind decades ago in order to get away 
> from these types of things. 
> >
> > Technology doesn't have to be the enemy of liberty but it will be if we let it.
> >
> I detest snaps in their current implementation - slow, clumsy, lots of
> files, bloated, etd.
> 
> They do strike me as a good idea, just not yet ready for prime time.
> 
> I use Firefox from the Mozilla repo for direct apt install/update. I
> don't use Thunderbird at all, and I have both snaps marked for "don't
> install".
> 
> It's also somewhat clumsy to remove the snaps that come with *buntu,
> but done once correctly, they don't come back unless I let them.
> 
I have simply removed snapd, everything is fine without it.  I don't
use either Thunderbird or Firefox and I don't think there's anything
else that needs snap, I haven't missed it anyway.

I use Vivaldi as my browser and that simply has its own PPA that works
fine.  The only other thing that might have used snap (but doesn't) is
Digikam which comes as an appimage which works fine though I do have
to D-I-Y updates.

Clear out the snap directory using 'snap remove' (if I remember
right), then 'apt purge snapd' and it's all gone.  There's a few other
bits and pieces you can lear out too.  You can't remove libsnapd-glib
as lots of things depend on it for some reason but it's removing snapd
that actually disables the whole snap mess.

-- 
Chris Green