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Comment by koolba | Hacker News Reader

It’s beyond obnoxious. It’s your computer and there’s no way to disable it from mutating without file system hacks?

There is. Don’t install Ubuntu. Use Debian.

The above might come across as flip, but I think it's actually spot on. Why would a mission critical or metered-connection-only machine be running the latest Ubuntu desktop anyway? Match the tool to the job.

It usually wouldn’t even be running Debian. More likely CentOS/RHEL/Suse or a Solaris.

That's the beauty of Linux Distros. We are spoiled for choice.

Or even, gasp, *BSD.

Google rebased their in-house workstation OS from Ubuntu to Debian a few years ago. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-... I wonder if snaps a contributing factor.

Ubuntu has a real problem here; Desktop Linux users are much more mobile than other OS users. If you’ve installed Ubuntu, you’re fully capable of installing at least Debian, and probably any other Linux distro.

You can cleanup Ubuntu from snaps: https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-...

However, Canonical pushes snaps via deb packages (e.g. Chromium).

The best option is the use an Ubuntu-based distro, like PopOS or Linux Mint or Elementary OS.

Or KDE Neon, which is by far the best distro I've used in 20 years of messing around with Linux.

I wish they would have based it directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu, but I just stay away from Snaps and get on with my life.

It's not your computer when Canonical is chummy with Microsoft.

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