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I've been running Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2 and haven't had any issues with snap being pushed on me—mainly because I don't use the Ubuntu store and have everything installed through apt on the command-line.

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If you’ve installed Chromium, lxd, (or in prior releases the gnome calculator), even with apt, you’ve installed snaps. Even without using the snap store. That’s the sneaky part that bothers a lot of people and makes it seem like snaps are forced on users.

In previous releases I wondered why such a small basic program like the Gnome Calculator would take several seconds to start from the time I clicked the icon in the "Activities" screen. Then when the whole 20.04 and forced Snap thing came to my attention I simply uninstalled the snap version and installed the proper version through apt. Now the program pops up instantly when I start it.

This single interaction basically turned me off snaps from then on.

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