[kwlug-disc] Zorin vs Mint

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Snap is a non issue on Xubuntu or Ubuntu Server LTS.

You just do:
   sudo apt purge snapd
And it is gone forever.

All of my systems are snap free, be they desktops or servers.

Only on the GNOME variants is it an issue because there are dependencies
that prevent its removal.
(Or so I have seen in past discussions).

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 02:27:11PM -0800, Ron wrote:
> >Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote on 2025-11-26 13:30:
> >
> >>That said, I don't know what you're actually getting vs just
> >>standard Ubuntu nowdays.
> >
> >Agreed, but I expect the answer is "no Snaps", even though there's
> >nothing really wrong with them.
>
> Ah, didn't even cross my mind. I dropped Ubuntu for Fedora just before
> the snap era - when they were doing buggy GTK+ patches that caused weird
> issues and forging ahead with Unity.
>
> Yeah, maybe Mint is the way to go -- Ubuntu minus snaps, even if there's
> a whole extra step in the chain.
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