Avoiding snaps in Lubuntu 22.04?

[Rosika2]

Hi all,

@apt-ghetto:

@apt-ghetto

What is the advantage of firejail over the sandboxing that snaps provide for free?

Uh, I can´t even begin to ennumerate all the advantages firejail provides.
Arguably one of the best documented pieces of software (https://firejail.wordpress.com/) it´s highly configurable and you can provide the degree of isolation to your liking.

It comes with a huge number of preconfigured profiles for various apps and programmes; you can also build them yourself.

Using the --private option for the firejail command provides an insanely highy security level for online banking , etc.
Can´t image how snap´s “sandboxing” could compete with that. Sorry.

So to me snaps are not worth taking any risks,

@apt-ghetto

To avoid all the additional work, I would simply use a distribution, which does not use snaps.

Yes, sad as it is, this would seem my last escape then.

@apt-ghetto

How much more download data do snaps cost you? And how are you calculating this?

Can´t remember exactly. But it installed snapd in a Debian virtual machine for experimental purposes and the (unwanted) updates cost me quite a bit.
I looked it up with nload at the time.

For my daily driver I cannot afford such “nonsense” as my only ineternet connection is established via a 4G-stick wich gives me 5 GB per 28 days. I´ll have to make do with that.

Thanks a lot.

@BasilCat:

@BasilCat

There in the replies i also posted how to remove snap and prevent it from coming back.

Thanks.
You´re referring to How to install firefox (non snap) , right?
I´ve read it through. Perhaps there´s still a glimmer of hope left. I´d like to stick with Lubuntu - if at all possible - but it has to be snap-free.

Many greetings to all
Rosika