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Never used a snap. Never will.

That's what I thought, until the other day I realised something I had installed was via snap. I'm afraid the only solution requires stop using Ubuntu :(

  sudo apt purge snapd

Does it mean that apt will then install a non-snap version?

I haven't verified that, but considering that nothing suggested that I was installing a snap app (other than me not paying attention to apt's output, I guess), I'm not sure if that's even possible. I was planning to stay with 18.04 LTS and then move to something else, but seems like either snap was there already or it has been added after I upgraded.

I don't think so because some apps are only available as snaps. that is less true for 18.04, but 20.04 and 22.04 use snaps fairly heavily and some like firefox only available through snaps, although there is also PPA and flatpaks available.

No, it removes the entire snap ecosystem from your machine, including the snap backend to apt. It does mean that installing snap-only packages becomes more problematic, but that's a price I'm willing to bear.

I think you have to use snap (I can't recall the incantation, snapctl??) to remove the snap mount points (which I think are made when snap packages get installed) first otherwise they don't get removed by simply removing snapd. Only did it once, so far.

I tried microk8s snap once. Never again

Care to explain why?

constantly high CPU usage. Moved on to k3s and happy since then

I use it only for Spotify

You can try https://github.com/jpochyla/psst for Electron-less Spotify. I use the AUR package on Arch. It was crashy some months ago but now works great.

I install Spotify through `apt`. What benefits do you get from installing their snap?

They sometimes forget to update the .Deb version

>@Romario74 That is not the case; while on Snap they packaged v77, if you look here you will find that the Spotify devs have not been updating the .deb releases. Re-packaging Snaps is less convenient than using a .deb tarball, and is being done through scripts by this Github project, which is in turn repackaged by @Edu4rdSHL.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify

So i run snapd on system

Can’t you just use the web site?

Both major browsers are Snaps as well. The web site also has a significant additional control latency when playing on a device on your local network.

I tried this but for me closing the browser sometimes means, being done with work or a task and this would always also shut down my music. It's the small things that still drive me to install their client, even though I know it is just another electron app.

The web player only does 128kbit AAC stream

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