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I agree entirely. Unavoidable updates were one of the key factors in my choice to avoid Windows 10 for business-critical computing. I standardized on Ubuntu ins
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I agree entirely. Unavoidable updates were one of the key factors in my choice to avoid Windows 10 for business-critical computing. I standardized on Ubuntu instead, but this could be a deal-breaker for me.
I hope Canonical fixes this immediately. I'm not eager to spend time re-researching to market for a suitable OS.
- walkingolof 6y agoJust disable snapd after you have achieved your ideal configuration. But yes, this should be a setting somewhere...
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoThanks, that's helpful. Another huge differentiator for Ubuntu over Windows was that I didn't think the OS vendor was trying to seize control of my computer. Canonical jeopardized that trust with this choice. I truly hope they take steps to restore it. I don't want the added work of switching OSs.
- Iolaum 6y agoThe problem with that is you are fighting the platform. That's not a great place to be. Unless your disagreement with the platform's design is small enough you are likely to be better choosing a more appropriate platform.
- KCUOJJQJ 6y agoI'm currently on Kubuntu 19.10. I don't have any snaps. So they can't autoupdate. BTW: After installation of Kubuntu there were automatic security updates. But it was possible to turn these off in the Muon Package Manager (Settings | Software Sources | Updates | Automatic Updates)
- m463 6y agoI tried to uninstall snapd on 18.04 and it broke the desktop. I tried to disable it from systemd, but it had some weird way of relaunching itself. just do a web search on disabling snapd to see how many people want to do this.
- techntoke 6y agoJust switch to Windows if you think that Ubuntu is your only choice for Linux desktop, and you're unhappy with it.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoPopOS is probably the closest... unless they pull the feature from 2020 into their main branch.