<div dir="ltr"><div>I just tested this in a new Xubuntu VM to confirm:</div><div><br><div class="gmail_default">> You just do:</div><div class="gmail_default">> sudo apt purge snapd</div><div class="gmail_default">> And it is gone forever.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div>Now try installing firefox via apt.<br>You'll find that it's not actually an apt package, but a wrapper for the snap version of firefox, which reinstalls snapd as a dependency.<br><br><div>Thankfully there aren't a lot of packages that are done like this, but I really don't like how Ubuntu just snuck snap into apt this way, despite promising they wouldn't be replacing apt.<br>This is one of the reasons Linux Mint doesn't include anything for snap: <a href="https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html">https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html</a><br><br>Also, the man page for firefox (and other software installed vis snap) is broken without manual work - has been for years annoyingly.<br><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575593">https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575593</a><br><br>Sorry.. didn't want to rehash this again, as I'm sure it's been discussed before.<br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 12:44\u202fPM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Snap is a non issue on Xubuntu or Ubuntu Server LTS.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You just do:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> sudo apt purge snapd</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">And it is gone forever.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">All of my systems are snap free, be they desktops or servers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Only on the GNOME variants is it an issue because there are dependencies that prevent its removal.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">(Or so I have seen in past discussions).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:49\u202fPM Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 02:27:11PM -0800, Ron wrote:<br>
>Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote on 2025-11-26 13:30:<br>
><br>
>>That said, I don't know what you're actually getting vs just <br>
>>standard Ubuntu nowdays.<br>
><br>
>Agreed, but I expect the answer is "no Snaps", even though there's <br>
>nothing really wrong with them.<br>
<br>
Ah, didn't even cross my mind. I dropped Ubuntu for Fedora just before <br>
the snap era - when they were doing buggy GTK+ patches that caused weird <br>
issues and forging ahead with Unity.<br>
<br>
Yeah, maybe Mint is the way to go -- Ubuntu minus snaps, even if there's <br>
a whole extra step in the chain.</blockquote></div></div>
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