[neetfreek]

Point taken on the shoddy behaviour, but if you'd like to try it out there's this helpful post on disabling snap[1] shared here[2] when I installed 20.04. Quick and painless!

1. https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972661

*Edited

[m-p-3]

At that point I'll just use Debian.

[ryandrake]

I've used Debian at home for at least two decades now. It's excellent. Debian is basically Ubuntu minus a lot of user-hostile crap, so if you are familiar with Ubuntu, it should be a fairly smooth transition to Debian.

Watching this snap thing play out, and in the past, watching Mir, Unity, and Amazon Lens, has provided steady confirmation that I've made the right decision to stay away from Ubuntu.

[neetfreek]

It's dawning on me that it's likely to only become more of a pain with each iteration of upgrades (e.g. install tweaks, synaptic, remove apport... And now remove snaps).

Time to check out Debian!

*Edited. I can't type on phones.

[littlestymaar]

Debian used not to work easily on hardware that require proprietary drivers, did it change recently ?

I left Ubuntu almost ten years ago, after 5 years of using it, when they started using MIR instead of Gnome2 and I replaced it with Linux Mint and I haven't looked back. This whole snap thing looks like the new weird decision made by Canonical to make their faithful users leave :/

[michaelmrose]

While this is indeed helpful why do I want a version of Linux that has to be decrapified like Windows immediately after install and may with a future update may need to be fixed again. If you use non LTS you will have to "fix" it every 6 months.