Disabling snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

By default, Ubuntu ships with a bunch of snap packages. If, like me, you don't like snap and Flatpak infecting your clean deb/apt-based system, here's how to remove them.

Now this all sounds great, and it is in some ways (especially for app developers), but it comes at a cost: and that is generally performance and annoyances with application theming, access to user folders, and the like. I personally find that if I want to run a sandboxed application I lean more toward Flatpak as it is more performant and seems a bit more mature than Canonical's snap system.

In any event, I usually disable snaps entirely on a fresh install of Ubuntu, and I'll show you how to do that in the new Ubuntu 20.04 release.