• Oisteink@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    What’s wrong with just removing snap? When ever I am forced to install Ubuntu I will remove snap and the “advantage-tools” (the part trying to sell you support)

    First I’ll snap remove —purge all snap packages Then apt purge —auotoremove snapd ubuntu-advantage-tools

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      8 months ago

      Leaves behind a bunch of stuff. You have to manually remove each Snap individually, plus the snapshots they take and then hide, and then use Snap to remove itself (it doesn’t let you), then you can apt purge snapd.
      There’s several levels of “we know better than you so we’ll just keep this here for when you inevitably change your mind” and it is exhausting.
      I don’t even know if the above would also clean up all the dev/loop cruft. It was an unpleasant surprise to discover that apt remove alone didn’t at least disable all the systemd .mount units.

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        8 months ago

        There’s like one directory left after my uninstall - I don’t do this by hand though so I’ll have to look up the playbook.

        My first line was the snap remove

        Might need an autoremove —purge at the end to clean up.