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On 2023-09-09 07:59, Nic wrote:
> On 9/9/23 6:48 AM, bad sector wrote:
>> On 2023-09-08 17:03, bad sector wrote:
>>> On 9/8/23 14:08, azigni wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> There are several references to remove snap. They all take less than
>>>> ten minutes. All you need to do is be able to open a terminal and
>>>> copy and paste.
>>>>
>>>> Web browser Search: Ubuntu remove snap
>>>>
>>>> First suggestion of my search: https://itsfoss.com/remove-snap/
>>>> Doesn`t get easier than than that.
>>>
>>> I`ll look into it on Sunday, to see how the default package manager
>>> then installs/upgrades/reinstalls all my apps without snap. Its the
>>> apps that rule, OSes are after all just plugins for them.
>>
>>
>> "I advise against removing snap support from Ubuntu as it is built-in
>> with the system. Advanced users may do this only if they are not
>> afraid of the command line and troubleshooting the system. The latest
>> releases of Ubuntu has snap integrated deeply. Also, many
>> Ubuntu-specific features, like livepatch, will only work with snap
>> enabled. As a suggestion, do not perform this on your main production
>> machine, unless you know what you are doing."
>>
>> When I read stuff like this I normally run like hell, but this time I
>> just backed up the `buntu partition and went at it. Turns out that
>> Firefox-v-nonsnap was already installed and the only snap stuff left was
>> snap system files. Killed every one of them. We`ll see where the road
>> goes, for now (because I also want to do something useful with my time
>> and the zasf-dssi is absent in the installed Rosegarden) I get
>> problems associated with THAT (another thread belonging in
>> alt.os.linux.ubuntu only).
>>
>>
>>
> Reminds me of the good old days when M$ claimed that Internet Explorer
> was deeply integrated into the OS, and the court case that came out of
> this entwining.
Well lo and behold the system rebooted OK but then I only got a single
curser flash for logging-in and everything froze like Loctite(R). I`m
already using the recovered *.dd partition :-)
Of course if Ubuntu want to follow microcancer that, as we say, is their
ship, their bridge, their watch.
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