[kwlug-disc] sadness in Ubuntu land

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 8:07 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This worked well, until I tried to run updates.  Apt updates forcibly (as
> in, you can't stop it once it starts) removes the apt version of Firefox
> and replaces it with the original Snap version.  The popup TUI basically
> said that from now on I must use the Snap version.  You can imagine the new
> words I invented when I saw that message come up...
>
> So.... what to do?   I've been an Ubuntu fan for many years, but this
> latest move by Canonical really bakes my cookies.  Should I move over to
> Fedora or some other distro that doesn't force their views on us?
>

I can't talk about 22.04, but on 20.04 I remove snap itself after I remove
the Firefox snap (and something else, which I forgot).

$ sudo apt purge snapd

Then I don't bother ever again with snap or any snap installed software.

I hope this is still possible with 22.04.
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