Snap out of it

There has been a lot of bad news about snap recently. I’m not a fan, and it looks like other people are speaking out too. Linux Mint has even decided to drop snap altogether. If you’re looking to drop snap here’s how to make sure it stays off your system. First check if you have any snaps installed. If you do you should write them down and try installing them with apt. Now you’re ready to remove snapd Once it’s removed you can block it from being reinstalled via apt. After you have blocked it if you try to install it again (or another package tries to install it via a dependency) you’ll see the following message. Ubuntu devs, please remove snapd from being installed by default and let users opt-in to using it if they want. Don’t play tricks with empty packages to drive adoption of your proprietary technology, or require users to use debian repos to install packages without snapd.