[abrouwers]

Just curious, why not simply stop using snaps? On my machine, the whole snapd* can be removed, and mozilla offers pretty high-quality ubuntu repo for firefox.

[EnergyAmy]

They're doing sly things with snaps, like automatically installing the snap when you try to apt install something. I wouldn't put it past them to try to reinstall snapd without notification. It's easier to just move to a system you can trust.

[abrouwers]

I don't agree, it's easy to set the mozilla repo as pinned / priority for apt (in fact, mozilla's 2-step instructions help you do that). I'm not sure what the second point means, are you not in charge of the package manager on your system? I can't say I've had apt run without my knowledge :-)

[mixmastamyk]

Chromium too. You can spend a half an hour fixing it every single time, or just use Mint. My newer hardware uses Fedora, which is great also.

[twic]

On my company-issued Ubuntu machine, i installed flatpak and use that for everything where a containerised package is warranted.