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

[Alex Johns]

On 9/9/24 05:45, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>
Or simply move to a Debian based distro such as Debian it self or nix os 
or Rhino which I am quite impressed with except for the wall papers :-)

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