Do you use Chromium? If not, simply uninstall snap:
sudo apt purge snapd
and then make sure it cannot be installed again:
sudo apt-mark hold snapd
And then sit back, keep using Ubuntu 20.04 for another two years and see what happened to snap when the dust settles. Plenty of time to consider moving to Linux Mint or another distribution in the mean time.
I moved off of Fedora to get away from indi library update problems. Because I have become accustomed to cinnamon I installed Mint. It seemed to work fine with Ekos, at that time it was based on ubuntu 18.n. The only issue I had was poor performance when using it remotely over nomachine. Its Mate UI did not suffer from that. Fixing the nomachine performance issue messed up the ability to boot into the GUI. I then gave up on it and installed ubuntu 20.04. If you are a Mate user I don't see the advantage of going with Mint.
Part of the reason I am still using 18.04 at the moment. I can't understand why they decided to use Chromium and snapd package that connects and installs itself without my consent... Thanks for the purge and hold tip
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Disturbing... This was what a friend mine was referencing but without this article in front of him he was paraphrasing, pretty sure this was what had him ticked... Just kept saying it installs programs without users consent and Chromium. (He is not a fan of anything related to Google...) So I have not upgraded from 18.04, thanks for the link. Maybe I will have a look at Mint. Or do what Wouter suggested and remove snapd and not use Chromium.
To bad they don't have an ARM iso.
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