[kwlug-disc] Xubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 Upgrade

[Jason]

This is one reason I use Linux Mint, as they've completely removed snap,
and I support their reasoning for doing so:
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906

Also, from here:
https://winaero.com/enable-or-disable-snap-in-linux-mint-20/

The Snap Store is exclusively controlled by Canonical. It is a centralized
software source.
While Snap is open-source, it only works with the Ubuntu Store.
You cannot create your own store, and uses a closed protocol to deliver
updates.
This means that Snap client works only with one store, and nobody can
create his own store for redistributing span packages.

Personally, I would use Flatpak because at least you can host your own
Flatpak repository if Flathub ever goes away.

It was frustrating when using Ubuntu Server, that doing things like
installing Firefox with apt, was just a wrapper for the snap package
install.
This actually broke the man pages and they aren't available.
Hilariously this has been a known bug since 2016:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575593

Cheers,
Jason

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 6:59 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> I am using Xubuntu 22.04 LTS on the desktops, and Ubuntu Server LTS 22.04
> on the servers.
> So far, I have managed to do away with snap totally.
> The snapd package is not even installed on any of these computers.
> The trick is to uninstall any snap packages, and then uninstall snapd
> itself.
>
> $ sudo snap
> Command 'snap' not found, but can be installed with:
> apt install snapd
>
> When upgrading (from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS) Canonical did not re-install
> snapd.
>
> For Firefox, I use the Mozilla Team PPA from apt, and all works well.
>
> I am hoping that my luck so far with this scheme continues with 24.02 LTS.
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