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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/9/24 05:45, Chris Green wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 6:02 PM Steven Mainor <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve@degga.net"><steve@degga.net></a> wrote:
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I have to agree. I no longer use ubuntu because of snap. I personally
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">left the windows/mac ecosystems behind decades ago in order to get away
from these types of things.
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Technology doesn't have to be the enemy of liberty but it will be if we let it.
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">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.
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">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.
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<p>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 :-)</p>
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