Stuart, would you mind sharing your experience removing snapd from Ubuntu? I'd love to learn how you managed to do it. I'd be happy to get rid of snapd, too. I have started a new thread because it's clearly off-topic to the original thread.

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 08:33, Stewart Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 2:15 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On the other hand, Canonical is the owner of Snap and pushes it hard.
So on a Ubuntu system you may end up needing to use Snap.

I manage to have working Ubuntu desktops without snapd, but it's a bit of a fight initially. It may be difficult if you're a Chrome/Chromium user on Ubuntu, as the main distribution channel for those browsers is via snaps. I'll allow a few AppImage packages on my system, but snaps and flatpaks aren't welcome.

Stewart