Remove Snap Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS

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I came to post about this to, but you got to it first.

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@ben I was ready to switch back to Ubuntu. :rofl:

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Yeah, almost got me too lmao.

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-------->>>>>> SNAPS Suck !!!

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No not at all. It’s considered a convenience because it gives easy access to packages not available via apt. As far as I’m aware that’s really the only advantage.

However, between the cache, and disk space use and strange presence when you type dr command I believe most find it too intrusive.

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When you need to join Ubuntu to active directory some snapped applications stopped working correctly. this allowed me to solve those issues. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

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I can’t agree more. -------->>>>>> SNAPS Suck !!!

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Welcome! :handshake: Thanks for taking the time to confirm this still works.

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I tried to remove snap from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VM today. But its also removing ubuntu-server-minimal.

So I just disabled instead.

sudo systemctl disable snapd.service
sudo systemctl disable snapd.socket
sudo systemctl disable snapd.seeded.service
sudo systemctl mask snapd.service

Edit: updated for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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@hydn your link broke :pensive_face: I was looking forward to reading that :nerd_face:

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Ahh, it was an April Fool’s joke. So guess it was removed. The original domain looks like its been taken over as well. Let me delete that link.

I always solve broken or removed links with the Wayback Machine, haha. And indeed it was captured if still interested:

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Happy belated April fools on both of us :joy: