Most of our family PCs run Xubuntu LTS. Because they are low end / 10+ year old machines I always uninstall unnecessary stuff like snap. Have not seen a single

Most of our family PCs run Xubuntu LTS. Because they are low end / 10+ year old machines I always uninstall unnecessary stuff like snap. Have not seen a single case where I would have regretted this. I have been using Xubuntu 20.04 for several weeks and it has worked well. Because that's a high end laptop I have not bothered to uninstall snap yet, although that has been on my mind. I am surprised that the article writes there are snaps installed by default. Checking in Xubuntu 20.04 that's luckily not the case $ snap list No snaps are installed yet. Try 'snap install hello-world'. So the only somewhat worrying news is that chromium is gone. $ apt show chromium-browser Package: chromium-browser Version: 80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu1 ... Pre-Depends: debconf, snapd ... Description: Transitional package - chromium-browser -> chromium snap This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed. . chromium-browser is now replaced by the chromium snap. Not that I would use Chromium more than 3 times a year. But occasionally some web site is broken on Firefox. And if it is important like a flight check-in I start chromium. But flying is not a valid use case in Europe at the moment so lets see how long I it takes until I note the lack of chromium again.