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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-09-03 19:56, Jason wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This is one reason I use Linux Mint, as they've
completely removed snap, and I support their reasoning for doing
so: <a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906</a><br>
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Also, from here: <a
href="https://winaero.com/enable-or-disable-snap-in-linux-mint-20/"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://winaero.com/enable-or-disable-snap-in-linux-mint-20/</a><br>
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<p>Quote about snaps from 2020's post:</p>
<p>"""</p>
<p>A year later, in the Ubuntu 20.04 package base, the Chromium
package is indeed empty and acting, without your consent, as a
backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store.</p>
<p>"""<br>
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<p>... "as a backdoor" ... into user's habits. Dark pattern at the
very least.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The Snap Store is exclusively controlled by
Canonical. It is a centralized software source. <br>
While Snap is open-source, it only works with the Ubuntu Store.
<br>
You cannot create your own store, and uses a closed protocol to
deliver updates. <br>
This means that Snap client works only with one store, and
nobody can create his own store for redistributing span
packages.<br>
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Personally, I would use Flatpak because at least you can host
your own Flatpak repository if Flathub ever goes away.<br>
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It was frustrating when using Ubuntu Server, that doing things
like installing Firefox with apt, was just a wrapper for the
snap package install.
<div>This actually broke the man pages and they aren't
available. <br>
Hilariously this has been a known bug since 2016: <a
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575593"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575593</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Jason<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">kb@2bits.com</a>>
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<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I am
using Xubuntu 22.04 LTS on the desktops, and Ubuntu Server
LTS 22.04 on the servers. <br>
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<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">So far, I
have managed to do away with snap totally.</div>
<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The snapd
package is not even installed on any of these computers.</div>
<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The trick
is to uninstall any snap packages, and then uninstall
snapd itself. <br>
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<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">$ sudo
snap<br>
Command 'snap' not found, but can be installed with:<br>
apt install snapd</div>
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<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">When
upgrading (from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS) Canonical did not
re-install snapd.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">For
Firefox, I use the Mozilla Team PPA from apt, and all
works well.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I am
hoping that my luck so far with this scheme continues with
24.02 LTS.<br>
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