> On 3 Mar 2024, at 06:45, o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> TL;DR
> (I installed snapd on my system because I really really wanted to work with virtual systems
> and LXD seemed like a great solution. LXD still seems to be a pretty good solution but to
> run it you MUST be using snapd and that's a subsystem that forces you to do a LOT of
> things the way 'canonical' wants you to - - - you have absolutely NO choice in any part of it
> after you start. And - - - - removing snapd - - - well - - for me it was a what I call a M$ fix
> - - - I had to re-install! (Absolutely could not cleanly remove snapd no matter how many
> rm -r I tried!.))

Every time I’ve had to remove snap from an Ubuntu installation it needs to remove the installed snaps before you can uninstall the snap daemon.

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

Tom