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It’s beyond obnoxious. It’s your computer and there’s no way to disable it from mutating without file system hacks?
by koolba 7y ago
It’s beyond obnoxious. It’s your computer and there’s no way to disable it from mutating without file system hacks?
- kazinator 7y agoIt's not your computer when Canonical is chummy with Microsoft.
- noncoml 7y agoThere is. Don’t install Ubuntu. Use Debian.
- ip26 7y agoThe above might come across as flip, but I think it's actually spot on. Why would a mission critical or metered-connection-only machine be running the latest Ubuntu desktop anyway? Match the tool to the job.
- indigodaddy 7y agoIt usually wouldn’t even be running Debian. More likely CentOS/RHEL/Suse or a Solaris.
- noncoml 7y agoThat's the beauty of Linux Distros. We are spoiled for choice.
- SomeoneFromCA 7y agoOr even, gasp, *BSD.
- ashtonkem 7y agoUbuntu has a real problem here; Desktop Linux users are much more mobile than other OS users. If you’ve installed Ubuntu, you’re fully capable of installing at least Debian, and probably any other Linux distro.
- curt15 7y agoGoogle rebased their in-house workstation OS from Ubuntu to Debian a few years ago. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-house-linux-desktop/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-... I wonder if snaps a contributing factor.
- paride5745 7y agoYou can cleanup Ubuntu from snaps: https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-20-04/ https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-... However, Canonical pushes snaps via deb packages (e.g. Chromium). The best option is the use an Ubuntu-based distro, like PopOS or Linux Mint or Elementary OS.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoOr KDE Neon, which is by far the best distro I've used in 20 years of messing around with Linux. I wish they would have based it directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu, but I just stay away from Snaps and get on with my life.