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Staudey @Girtablulu

isn't snapd built into solus's core?

I always thought it was dangerous to get rid of? or is snapd and snap different? all I know for certain is I have the wrong assumption about something🙂

      Staudey I'm sure there are also a number of flatpak apps with outdated version and open vulnerabilities, but I won't consider removing flatpak either.

      Flatpaks are usually an application within a wrapper, set up to update automatically from the application's repository as the application updates. That's been my experience with Edge, GnomeBoxes and Zoom Flatpaks, anyway. When I see Edge or Zoom update on my Windows computers, I run "flatpak update" on Solus and the Flatpak updates.

        That is precisely what I hate about snaps, for me that section should look more clean with only drives and not apps related things.

        Staudey Users are free to uninstall snap from their systems, if they so choose

        And I agree with you, I'm sure there are a lot of people using snaps for daily use.

            brent Oh no you can definitely uninstall snapd without any issues. I also did so for quite some time (until I had to test some snap-related functionality on bare metal again ^^)

                Staudey OK, thank you. Just curious---what would those dev/loop pictures above look like with Snap removed? Would they all be 0% with 0 bytes?

                    brent it wouldn't be shown at all, these loop are single snapd packages which where installed

                        in my machine, if I don't uninstall those snaps with snapd they will remain wen I unistall snapd form solus, that is my experience though.

                        Girtablulu thank you. I do remember the devs in the past would be very gloom-n-doom about removing this piece of infrastructure. no more I suppose. I only use Flatpaks so no horse in this race

                            This is what I use for Ubuntu based distros and Gnome. I assume Solus would be similar:
                            snap list
                            sudo snap remove --purge package-name (i.e. The specific package one at a time from the list)
                            sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/
                            sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap
                            rm -fr ~/snap
                            sudo apt-mark hold snapd

                            Perhaps someone more familiar with Solus commands can adapt this.
                            P.S. I do use the fwupd snap so I haven't figured out how to do this on Solus.