Mint is a good alternative. Ubuntu based, great Cinnamon desktop environment, no Snaps, and a fresh release is just around the corner (Mint 21, based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS).
I wouldn't say 'no Snaps' but they defend users against having Snaps forced upon them. Choice is important - you should be able to install whatever you like, but not have choices removed to push a second rate in-house project.
I once did apt purge snapd and it removed all installed snap packages. I know for sure because I reinstalled snapd and did snap list and it listed no snaps. No need to go through snap remove --purge one by one. If you're worried about the leftover files that would've been deleted by issuing command snap remove --purge, they're in /var/lib/snapd/snapshots.
Thanks, Brandon. Another helpful video. Initially, I tried to just remove the Firefox snap, but the snap store began to play up [not opening, flickering]. So I went the whole hog and it is working very well now without snap. Could I say it is even more 'snappier' lol
I switched to Linux last December and Ubuntu was my first and favorite distro until it forced my "Sudo apt" into "Sudo snap". That's the kind of corporate meddling I was trying to get away from in windows. (Not that either are bad persay, just stuff like that ruins it for me)
I think the remaining Natives would also love to celebrate once an Independence Day and getting their land back, although that probably will never happen.
I can't remember which distro it was that I installed (but it was probably Ubuntu based) and noticed all this crap scattered in my home directory. After looking into it, it was all snap related 😡. And did notice it took longer for these snaps to load. So went through manually and changed them all over to either proper repo ones or flatpaks. This script would have been nice to have in that regard. In the end it didn't matter as I swapped to another distro without snaps as it just worked better than the one I was on.
in my opnoin if a devloper supports appimage and flatpack and maybe even a .deb for good messure they pretty much supported every desktop linux distro out there theres no need to support dnf and pacman and what else does only need to be supported if something needs to be intregated into your system like kernal modules for kvm in that situation its best to use your native package manager app images arent really a choice becuse there seprated from everything else a flatpack will probally work but if you have apt then that will most likely be your best bet if you wonna run a browser or a game client like steam flatpack is the best option
I have a now aging Dell latitude E7470 with limited RAM and space (128GB HD). Every little bit helps and matters when it comes to speed, efficiency and space. I took a sabbatical from GNU/Linux for a few years. Recently wiped windows off the laptop and installed Ubuntu and loving it again. However, the speed or lack of rather, launching some apps was noticeable. Snaps and flatpaks didn't exist when I was in Linux-land and just catching up. I wouldn't care but the impact on performance is noticeable. If it weren't for the fact I love the Ubuntu aesthetic I would just switch to a different distro but, what a hassle 'un-snapping' Ubuntu. I think it's insane they way Canonical tries to force their developmental ideas on users. Did the world really need yet another package management? Maybe, someone will create an Ubuntu iso that is Ubuntu "un-snapped" out of the box, so we don't have to worry about mistakes or it creeping back in etc.
if you had created the mozillateamppa preferences file first, then ran apt install firefox would you have needed to specify the source ppa to be sure, or would the priority of 501 have kicked in and you would have used it by default?
Next time a collega comments on the difficulty of using Linux, I will think to this video and never argument with my colleagues again ^_^ Jokes aside, this manual tinkering in this fragmented ecosystem are real deal breakers for the common folk that just needs to use a computer. While they're not necessary, the Linux desktop experience is still too varied and command line based to recommend
With respect [smile] install Mint. Easy fix. For one thing, a Mint install won't try & 'repair' your install by putting it back. As several other comments here say, quite reasonably, if you don't want snaps then why are you on Ubuntu? How many Linux variants are there based on Debian and with some added tricks? Sparky-Linux - Parrot-Linux - MX-Linux - Kali ... go to distrowatch and step down the list one by one, and some of them are Arch based (irrelevant for this conversation) and most of those which remain, are Debian based. Anything that's based on or developed from Ubuntu (Mint being an exception) should not have snapd in it by default. If it does, it will probably be mentioned on distrowatch, or in the release notes. That still leaves you at least 40 distributions. Yes, you can remove it, but why not stat with something where either it was never in there, or it's been taken out by the distro maintainers?
Google Translator: If you want to use Ubuntu without Snap use: - PopOs - Linux Mint - Zorin OS - Elementary OS All of these above drink from the source and eat from the Ubuntu plate. Snap is just one of the products on the Ubuntu showcase. It just needs a better store to give desktop Snaps a boost. In the corporate world this technology is flying! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Se você quer usar Ubuntu sem Snap use: - PopOs - Linux Mint - Zorin OS - Elementary OS Todos esses acima bebem da fonte e comem do prato do Ubuntu. Snap é apenas um dos produtos na vitrine do Ubuntu. Falta apenas uma loja melhor pra dar uma força para os Snaps no desktop. No mundo corporativo essa tecnologia está voando!
The Damning fact that people are doing this… is a huge middle finger to ubuntu management. But you can't reason with arrogance… thus this video... my seeking it… and people having second and last thoughts about ubuntu. The Linux community cannot be pushed around like the Windows community… They are seriously over estimating their market position ( but that is the definition of arrogance)
This kind of idiocy is exactly why I don’t use Ubuntu. I do like and might use Linux Mint, but the kernel is so old, it fails to boot post install. I know, 12th gen Intel CPUs, but it’s JULY and Linux Mint STILL is way behind…
@@cameronbosch1213 So it's better using a rolling release and bleeding edge distribution. I'm not sure if Fedora's most recent or not compared to Ubuntu/Mint, but I think Arch or Arch-based are most suitable for you.
Hi I just have a quick question in 07:08 i am in Kubuntu and have been following this guide to remove snap completely from my system. My question is do i need to run the install gnome-software command. I'm just confused here because I am on KDE. Thanks in advance.
1:04 so ,how come you have all these snaps and I have: bare , core20 , gnome-3-38-2004 , gtk-common-themes , snap-store , snapd , snapd-desktop-integration None of which bothers me in the least and all I have removed is Firefox snap because it does not have native messaging sorted yet. I have Thunderbird that is not listed as a snap and have installed loads of apps using Synaptic or CLI. All this griping about snaps is ridiculous I've used Linux since 2007 and the worst thing about Linux has always been the whining
Let's see, gonna use unsnap, which came out like 2 months ago and got praise from several other prominent youtube channels. Probably not going to give a solution to the actual issue where a ubuntu migration to say the next version of Ubuntu doesn't break this.
I added unsnap to this video after the initial recording. I can't predict what they're doing for the next version. I do show how to make it so Ubuntu won't try to reinstall snap during an update.
@@TechHut If you migrate 22.04 to 22.10 snapd will reinstall itself as APT will rewrite the /etc/apt/preferences.d file. So your solution is not fixing the issue.
@@nevoyu This video is for now not in October. You could probably just repeat these steps, but it's not released so I'm not sure. I'll get back to you.
Hello, I ask myself the simple question why I should do this as an Ubuntu user? I as a mature Ubuntu user adjust and also adjust to use Snap. In Ubuntu there is but the possibility of DEB over Flatpak also all other variants to use. Here runs besides Fedora 36 also Ubuntu in the 22.4 as LTS version and sorry, I have no problems with Snap because I use enough memory, have enough disk space and even at the first start of the apps like Firefox the pause easily survive, especially since this is currently at around 2800ms and then at around 800-1000 ms. It just works, as well and similar to Silverblue. It is true that System Snap is proprietary on the part of Canonical like so many other things in life and yet not the devil's work because the developers do not have to go this way and yet they do it as in the example of Mozilla. I find it much more important that the packages are kept up to date as currently seen in the example of Thunderbird. One was but as in the case of Canonical an absolute Nogo. Firefox as a snap without connection to the Gnome Extensoins. This must not happen to a company, especially since there was no other way to give inexperienced users access to the Gnome extension infrastructure. In the end, I find Ubuntu to be a non-starter. Rather I would take Zorin for it but in no case MINT or PopOS especially since both derivatives participate from Canonical and simply neuter parts and even complain about it. This gets no support from our side especially since the added value especially in PoP OS are 90% used extensions that have been adapted to make the look of PoP OS. I personally see even Fedora as the current easiest distribution especially for beginners with standard laptops of the newer generation. LG
for some reason installation takes longer in flatpak. snap is fast to install but slow to launch. they should just make snap faster and it would be fine. install, uninstall, update, search natively is just better. idk im just a windows user. maybe i was spoiled by microsoft
You do realize that if u did just apt install firefox this absolute pile of discarded excrements will redownload snapd and snap-firefox-transitional-package thing ;-/ This level of forcing ones hand is beyond even windows.
@Krakete I even respect plasma. Anything except GNOME. I prefer xfce which consumes much much less RAM and does NOT make you wait for a simple app start...
I definitely don't mind running snaps on a server. There's really not a better option for command line utilities. Here's what I mean: docker is a great, but you can't use it to run commands/apps on the server's bare metal. AppImages could be a potential solution, but honestly I'm unaware of any major CLI apps that use it, and then you've got the whole issue of updating said apps. Flatpaks are designed for desktop use, so no CLI apps there, either. So you're left with Snaps or whatever is in the distro's repos. Now on desktop, snaps are... Fine. Innocuous at best. Honestly, I don't care enough about Canonical knowing that I downloaded something from them to care that much. But flatpaks, honestly, feel better once you use them. They just make more sense. There's more software that I WANT to run in flatpaks. Heck, I end up using it more often than regular RPMs for Fedora, just because I know that if it works on one system, it will work on my system. Snaps just don't have a reason to exist on Fedora, not unless the software only exists as a snap. Snaps, I think, will be around for a long time. Canonical has too much market share for it to not be a standard. I don't think it will be THE standard, but it very well could be for the server space.
Was, fantastic before Unity, time get rid of app,snap, flat. It's samething as crapple. A trap to lock your hardware to a company who holds the keys to your software and hardware. Amd team up with Intel to lock hardware to Win 11. Wake up. Before it's to late. Been trying to tell people since they threw out the best linux we had and started over with Unity. Now the best we have is a mucrocrap company Fedora 36 with uefi locked hardwares. Soon you will only be able to run Linux inside window. Look at the long term effects of what they are doing. All the woke invasion of Linux. It's about being taken oven from within, like America.
I love snaps on my Ubuntu for instance the Firefox snap on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM loads faster that the Firefox flatpak on Fedora 36. The hate against snaps reminds me of the hate against Unity 10 years ago, equally stupid and unjustified. Just another populist hate expedition of the low-IQ Linux users against Canonical.
I don't know about firefox snap vs firefox flatpak and I am unbiased but gotta say the few apps that I installed so far are slow to launch. Benchmark comparisons have been made and snaps are just slower its a fact. I have an old laptop with only 128gb hd. Speed and space is a real issue and I don't see why Ubuntu is again forcing things on users. I do recall the Unity thing... I was never against it and on any hate expedition then either, but since you mention it. look how that was eventually abandoned; other projects too, like the smartphone. The way Canonical tried to creep amazon in was also wrong. I still love the Ubuntu aesthetic otherwise I'd use a different os but the corporate aspect of Canonical forcing weird new stuff is a shame. I took a sabatical from gnu/linux for a number of years and just recently come back...the thing that irked me then still irks me now more than ever that this snap issue, which didn't exist when I was using GNU/Linux last, which is the issue of fragmentation and duplication of efforts on stuff that doesn't matter which could be used to focus on making the things we have already better and creating new better "killer apps" Instead we now have flatpaks and snaps...woohoo...
I am a “NEWBIE”. Is (SNAP). MICROSOFT’S ADDITION TO LINUX? IF NOT, WHAT DID MS add to Linux? I want to pull everything Microsoft from my Linux regardless of flavor. Windows v11. Really shows MS BROAD SWEEP TO FORCE CONTROL OVER USERS. I DESPISE MS Windows! If there is a (written short code) I can install or commands listed I can use on all Linux I would be most humbled!
You can compile Linux kernel without Microsoft things... But it will a very hard work deleting Microsoft lines of code.... I would recommend you to install *BSD or Mac, but I think that even in them you could find things from Microsoft 🤣🤣 Just chill
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Mint is a good alternative. Ubuntu based, great Cinnamon desktop environment, no Snaps, and a fresh release is just around the corner (Mint 21, based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS).
Mint is a good alternative you are right but it's not an Ubuntu
I wouldn't say 'no Snaps' but they defend users against having Snaps forced upon them. Choice is important - you should be able to install whatever you like, but not have choices removed to push a second rate in-house project.
@@arslanenderit's Ubuntu 20.04 based
I prefer GNOME
@@elecbaguette That’s fair.
To put it into context, Alan Pope was the "snap evangelist", but now he himself has a script to nuke snaps.
Because he now no longer is employed by canonical , the guy is a hypocrite
@@abdullahzafar4401doesn't change the fact that snaps are crap
@@abrarwali880 Yes they are CRAP , no argues there ...
Sounds like a man who swings from extreme beliefs to another, so your statement doesn't prove much.
@@abdullahzafar4401 Pope= hypocrite! Flawless description for the Catholic's Big White Chief 😁🇻🇦😁
I once did apt purge snapd and it removed all installed snap packages. I know for sure because I reinstalled snapd and did snap list and it listed no snaps. No need to go through snap remove --purge one by one. If you're worried about the leftover files that would've been deleted by issuing command snap remove --purge, they're in /var/lib/snapd/snapshots.
I would also suggest adding xtra-deb ppa and xtra-deb repo , as they return all debs removed to force snaps and adds a few good apps.
Now you got my total attention.
After finished installing any Ubuntu based distro. 1st I did is to purge Snap & Flatpak, what I only need is APT & Appimage.
Just want to say I enjoy your content but all in all you seem like a cool guy. Thanks for sharing whatever you have for us.
good info here, An alternative is take Pop OS and install vanilla-gnome
This should be top five things to do after installing Ubuntu, video
Oh snaaap this was great thank you!
Snap has caused my system to be unstable.
Thanks, Brandon. Another helpful video. Initially, I tried to just remove the Firefox snap, but the snap store began to play up [not opening, flickering]. So I went the whole hog and it is working very well now without snap. Could I say it is even more 'snappier' lol
Wow! New Video style. love it
I switched to Linux last December and Ubuntu was my first and favorite distro until it forced my "Sudo apt" into "Sudo snap". That's the kind of corporate meddling I was trying to get away from in windows. (Not that either are bad persay, just stuff like that ruins it for me)
Good video and a nice thing to do for fun. But.. why? Why the hassle? Just get Mint or some of the others and you are good to go.
Thanks!
Pine64 will be making RISC-V based hardwares now,
HELL YEEEEEAAH
this reminds me of my experiments with the horrible windows 10 and having to use the command line to remove all the stupid apps.
Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans and anyone else who has successfully kicked out the red coats from their nations!
lol
I think the remaining Natives would also love to celebrate once an Independence Day and getting their land back, although that probably will never happen.
you are a L I F E S A V E R , thx :D
I can't remember which distro it was that I installed (but it was probably Ubuntu based) and noticed all this crap scattered in my home directory. After looking into it, it was all snap related 😡. And did notice it took longer for these snaps to load. So went through manually and changed them all over to either proper repo ones or flatpaks. This script would have been nice to have in that regard. In the end it didn't matter as I swapped to another distro without snaps as it just worked better than the one I was on.
Now we need way to migrate from snaps to nixpkgs.
in my opnoin if a devloper supports appimage and flatpack and maybe even a .deb for good messure they pretty much supported every desktop linux distro out there theres no need to support dnf and pacman and what else does only need to be supported if something needs to be intregated into your system like kernal modules for kvm in that situation its best to use your native package manager app images arent really a choice becuse there seprated from everything else a flatpack will probally work but if you have apt then that will most likely be your best bet if you wonna run a browser or a game client like steam flatpack is the best option
I have a now aging Dell latitude E7470 with limited RAM and space (128GB HD). Every little bit helps and matters when it comes to speed, efficiency and space. I took a sabbatical from GNU/Linux for a few years. Recently wiped windows off the laptop and installed Ubuntu and loving it again. However, the speed or lack of rather, launching some apps was noticeable. Snaps and flatpaks didn't exist when I was in Linux-land and just catching up. I wouldn't care but the impact on performance is noticeable. If it weren't for the fact I love the Ubuntu aesthetic I would just switch to a different distro but, what a hassle 'un-snapping' Ubuntu. I think it's insane they way Canonical tries to force their developmental ideas on users. Did the world really need yet another package management? Maybe, someone will create an Ubuntu iso that is Ubuntu "un-snapped" out of the box, so we don't have to worry about mistakes or it creeping back in etc.
if you had created the mozillateamppa preferences file first, then ran apt install firefox would you have needed to specify the source ppa to be sure, or would the priority of 501 have kicked in and you would have used it by default?
with no snaps does the ubuntu software app still work?
Thanks! Kane from Boise
THANKS
WELCOME
Next time a collega comments on the difficulty of using Linux, I will think to this video and never argument with my colleagues again ^_^
Jokes aside, this manual tinkering in this fragmented ecosystem are real deal breakers for the common folk that just needs to use a computer. While they're not necessary, the Linux desktop experience is still too varied and command line based to recommend
unfortunately flatpaks are architecture specific so don't go through all the hoops only to discover there's no brave browser for aarch64 yet. ugh
Yeah Tech Hut snap is a problem keeps on removing winehq and messing up the kernel
With respect [smile] install Mint. Easy fix. For one thing, a Mint install won't try & 'repair' your install by putting it back.
As several other comments here say, quite reasonably, if you don't want snaps then why are you on Ubuntu? How many Linux variants are there based on Debian and with some added tricks? Sparky-Linux - Parrot-Linux - MX-Linux - Kali ... go to distrowatch and step down the list one by one, and some of them are Arch based (irrelevant for this conversation) and most of those which remain, are Debian based. Anything that's based on or developed from Ubuntu (Mint being an exception) should not have snapd in it by default. If it does, it will probably be mentioned on distrowatch, or in the release notes. That still leaves you at least 40 distributions.
Yes, you can remove it, but why not stat with something where either it was never in there, or it's been taken out by the distro maintainers?
Google Translator:
If you want to use Ubuntu without Snap use:
- PopOs
- Linux Mint
- Zorin OS
- Elementary OS
All of these above drink from the source and eat from the Ubuntu plate.
Snap is just one of the products on the Ubuntu showcase. It just needs a better store to give desktop Snaps a boost. In the corporate world this technology is flying!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Se você quer usar Ubuntu sem Snap use:
- PopOs
- Linux Mint
- Zorin OS
- Elementary OS
Todos esses acima bebem da fonte e comem do prato do Ubuntu.
Snap é apenas um dos produtos na vitrine do Ubuntu. Falta apenas uma loja melhor pra dar uma força para os Snaps no desktop. No mundo corporativo essa tecnologia está voando!
I'm considering flatpacks because I can't stop firefox from automatically updating itself. Will flatpack solve my problem?
The Damning fact that people are doing this… is a huge middle finger to ubuntu management. But you can't reason with arrogance… thus this video... my seeking it… and people having second and last thoughts about ubuntu. The Linux community cannot be pushed around like the Windows community… They are seriously over estimating their market position ( but that is the definition of arrogance)
Next thing you know you'll be made to install the Kernel as a Snap
8:37 your fsce hide the Firefox update line code
This kind of idiocy is exactly why I don’t use Ubuntu. I do like and might use Linux Mint, but the kernel is so old, it fails to boot post install. I know, 12th gen Intel CPUs, but it’s JULY and Linux Mint STILL is way behind…
There's a Linux Mint version with most recent kernel as far as I know.
@@MarkHobbes It’s not recent enough for my laptop for some reason…
@@cameronbosch1213 So it's better using a rolling release and bleeding edge distribution. I'm not sure if Fedora's most recent or not compared to Ubuntu/Mint, but I think Arch or Arch-based are most suitable for you.
@@MarkHobbes I guess. Hence why I currently use EndeavourOS; Arch without (most of) the hassle!
@@hallwayraptor2036 Does it work with dual-drive dual-boots?
In short, use PopOs
I wouldn't hate Snap so much if it wasn't restricted from accessing my external drives in /mnt.
Your picture blocks the echo
Hi I just have a quick question in 07:08 i am in Kubuntu and have been following this guide to remove snap completely from my system. My question is do i need to run the install gnome-software command. I'm just confused here because I am on KDE. Thanks in advance.
Have you found an answer to that yet?
🚀🚀
1:04 so ,how come you have all these snaps and I have:
bare , core20 , gnome-3-38-2004 , gtk-common-themes , snap-store , snapd , snapd-desktop-integration
None of which bothers me in the least and all I have removed is Firefox snap because it does not have native messaging sorted yet.
I have Thunderbird that is not listed as a snap and have installed loads of apps using Synaptic or CLI.
All this griping about snaps is ridiculous
I've used Linux since 2007 and the worst thing about Linux has always been the whining
so why are you whining? lol
Celestial OS ? Ubuntu with flatpak out of the box
Let's see, gonna use unsnap, which came out like 2 months ago and got praise from several other prominent youtube channels.
Probably not going to give a solution to the actual issue where a ubuntu migration to say the next version of Ubuntu doesn't break this.
I added unsnap to this video after the initial recording. I can't predict what they're doing for the next version. I do show how to make it so Ubuntu won't try to reinstall snap during an update.
@@TechHut If you migrate 22.04 to 22.10 snapd will reinstall itself as APT will rewrite the /etc/apt/preferences.d file. So your solution is not fixing the issue.
@@nevoyu This video is for now not in October. You could probably just repeat these steps, but it's not released so I'm not sure. I'll get back to you.
Just use Mint
Why this torment? I installed pop_os there are no these terrible snap packages here )
how about don't use a ubuntu, there's so many great distro out there that isn't ubuntu, ubuntu is bloated
Hello, I ask myself the simple question why I should do this as an Ubuntu user? I as a mature Ubuntu user adjust and also adjust to use Snap.
In Ubuntu there is but the possibility of DEB over Flatpak also all other variants to use.
Here runs besides Fedora 36 also Ubuntu in the 22.4 as LTS version and sorry, I have no problems with Snap because I use enough memory, have enough disk space and even at the first start of the apps like Firefox the pause easily survive, especially since this is currently at around 2800ms and then at around 800-1000 ms.
It just works, as well and similar to Silverblue.
It is true that System Snap is proprietary on the part of Canonical like so many other things in life and yet not the devil's work because the developers do not have to go this way and yet they do it as in the example of Mozilla. I find it much more important that the packages are kept up to date as currently seen in the example of Thunderbird.
One was but as in the case of Canonical an absolute Nogo. Firefox as a snap without connection to the Gnome Extensoins. This must not happen to a company, especially since there was no other way to give inexperienced users access to the Gnome extension infrastructure.
In the end, I find Ubuntu to be a non-starter. Rather I would take Zorin for it but in no case MINT or PopOS especially since both derivatives participate from Canonical and simply neuter parts and even complain about it. This gets no support from our side especially since the added value especially in PoP OS are 90% used extensions that have been adapted to make the look of PoP OS. I personally see even Fedora as the current easiest distribution especially for beginners with standard laptops of the newer generation.
LG
But I support snap and appimage
Solution: don't use Ubuntu
Also valid, use Fedora
@@TechHut I agree :) Fedora would be my go to, but im a tinkerer, so I use arch.
Use any distro that uses flatpak as an option.
i wish i could install linux on my laptop ..
Why can’t you?
appimages or get out
for some reason installation takes longer in flatpak. snap is fast to install but slow to launch. they should just make snap faster and it would be fine. install, uninstall, update, search natively is just better. idk im just a windows user. maybe i was spoiled by microsoft
Snap is basically malware at this point.
You do realize that if u did just apt install firefox this absolute pile of discarded excrements will redownload snapd and snap-firefox-transitional-package thing ;-/ This level of forcing ones hand is beyond even windows.
Yeah it's rough. I go over the steps to prevent that near the end. It's still crazy though y even have to make preferences, files or anything.
@@Arnt91 Or switch to fedora.
not install ubuntu. you can install debian beta beta that usually is ubuntu stable LOL then apt install what eva want
Don't forget to remove Gnome too and replace it with xfce...
@Krakete
I even respect plasma.
Anything except GNOME.
I prefer xfce which consumes much much less RAM and does NOT make you wait for a simple app start...
xfce is ugly
No
@@SkyFly19853 since when did plasma make anyone wait for app starts?
@@donkey7921
I meant Gnome, NOT plasma.
Fedora
I definitely don't mind running snaps on a server. There's really not a better option for command line utilities. Here's what I mean: docker is a great, but you can't use it to run commands/apps on the server's bare metal. AppImages could be a potential solution, but honestly I'm unaware of any major CLI apps that use it, and then you've got the whole issue of updating said apps. Flatpaks are designed for desktop use, so no CLI apps there, either. So you're left with Snaps or whatever is in the distro's repos.
Now on desktop, snaps are... Fine. Innocuous at best. Honestly, I don't care enough about Canonical knowing that I downloaded something from them to care that much. But flatpaks, honestly, feel better once you use them. They just make more sense. There's more software that I WANT to run in flatpaks. Heck, I end up using it more often than regular RPMs for Fedora, just because I know that if it works on one system, it will work on my system. Snaps just don't have a reason to exist on Fedora, not unless the software only exists as a snap.
Snaps, I think, will be around for a long time. Canonical has too much market share for it to not be a standard. I don't think it will be THE standard, but it very well could be for the server space.
Thunderbird 102 is only available on snap. And non-repo, of course.
Oh, no! why oh why?
lol
Can you completely remove all the snaps on Zorin OS without any issues ?
Zorin Is Ubuntu based, so do the same
@@tino94 Thanks !
Or just use fedora
Pro tip don't use Ubuntu at all
3:18 re,move trash so can throw garbage on floor. why you have apt LOL
Just don't use Ubuntu. Simply, light, fast, don't put on weight and make your life much more happy.
9 min video for this?
The only answer is to install Debian bruh
So lost
oh no... my poor snaps ;-;
I actually like Snaps btw
Was, fantastic before Unity, time get rid of app,snap, flat. It's samething as crapple. A trap to lock your hardware to a company who holds the keys to your software and hardware. Amd team up with Intel to lock hardware to Win 11. Wake up. Before it's to late. Been trying to tell people since they threw out the best linux we had and started over with Unity. Now the best we have is a mucrocrap company Fedora 36 with uefi locked hardwares. Soon you will only be able to run Linux inside window. Look at the long term effects of what they are doing. All the woke invasion of Linux. It's about being taken oven from within, like America.
Sounds like a lot of fooling around when there are many other distros to choose from.
Man i have a better tip for everyone: don't use ubuntu
Good luck with that. Ubuntu is the most used distro and many people who aren't vocal don't care about these Ubuntu problems people claim
You look scary
How so? Lol
I love snaps on my Ubuntu for instance the Firefox snap on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM loads faster that the Firefox flatpak on Fedora 36. The hate against snaps reminds me of the hate against Unity 10 years ago, equally stupid and unjustified. Just another populist hate expedition of the low-IQ Linux users against Canonical.
I don't know about firefox snap vs firefox flatpak and I am unbiased but gotta say the few apps that I installed so far are slow to launch. Benchmark comparisons have been made and snaps are just slower its a fact. I have an old laptop with only 128gb hd. Speed and space is a real issue and I don't see why Ubuntu is again forcing things on users. I do recall the Unity thing... I was never against it and on any hate expedition then either, but since you mention it. look how that was eventually abandoned; other projects too, like the smartphone. The way Canonical tried to creep amazon in was also wrong. I still love the Ubuntu aesthetic otherwise I'd use a different os but the corporate aspect of Canonical forcing weird new stuff is a shame. I took a sabatical from gnu/linux for a number of years and just recently come back...the thing that irked me then still irks me now more than ever that this snap issue, which didn't exist when I was using GNU/Linux last, which is the issue of fragmentation and duplication of efforts on stuff that doesn't matter which could be used to focus on making the things we have already better and creating new better "killer apps" Instead we now have flatpaks and snaps...woohoo...
I am a “NEWBIE”. Is (SNAP). MICROSOFT’S ADDITION TO LINUX? IF NOT, WHAT DID MS add to Linux?
I want to pull everything Microsoft from my Linux regardless of flavor. Windows v11. Really shows MS BROAD SWEEP TO FORCE CONTROL OVER USERS. I DESPISE MS Windows!
If there is a (written short code) I can install or commands listed I can use on all Linux I would be most humbled!
Linux kernel is full of Microsoft additions
You can compile Linux kernel without Microsoft things... But it will a very hard work deleting Microsoft lines of code....
I would recommend you to install *BSD or Mac, but I think that even in them you could find things from Microsoft
🤣🤣 Just chill
systemctl disable snapd.service systemctl disable snapd.socket