I just tried to upgrade Ubuntu and I suddenly see that new packages want to be installed; snapd and firefox. I don’t need Firefox because I’m already using Firefox-ESR as a deb and I certainly don’t need snaps.
Why is Ubuntu doing this? I get it you like snaps but I don’t, so don’t try to force install it. I had to use apt-mark hold to block the install of snapd and firefox. This is also not an isolated incident. I just checked Reddit and someone made a thread 8 hours back regarding the same issue.
This thing is giving me Microsoft vibes.
If you don’t want this to happen in the future there is a solution that still works in the steps 4 and 5 of the first section of this tutorial:
https://www.debugpoint.com/remove-snap-ubuntu/
That’s exactly what I wanted. Thanks.
But makes me wonder how apt-mark is different 🤔🤔