Uninstall snapd from ubuntu 20.04

In my last post I found out who was to blame for filling my complete disk. It was this new and fu**** slow snapd added to ubuntu in the last few moments before release to get into the app market business. I decided to live without this feature and uninstalled it:

snap list | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -rn1 sudo snap remove

After letting this run a few times i tried to uninstall the remaining snaps manually with

sudo snap remove <name>

Some refused to uninstall but I continued with unmounting its volume and getting rid of snapd from the system:

sudo umount /snap/core/<replace_with_number_in_your_folder>
sudo apt purge snapd

In the end i cleaned up any stuff left from snapd:

rm -rf ~/snap
sudo rm -rf /snap
sudo rm -rf /var/snap
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/snapd

In the end removing all snaps freed about 20GB of data. I will reinstall everything based on apt as usual and will then be back at maybe 15GB of saved space without snapd.

Next to this space problem all the apt installed applications start seconds faster.

Thanks for the long years of great operating system but that’s a way I won’t go with you.