Snap is a packaging format developed by canonical to use in Ubuntu and other Linux distros but there are problems with snaps as they are slow compared to native binaries and consume a lot of disk space and the server side of snapcraft is proprietary, but since it’s their own technology canonical is pushing it too much over other solutions in Ubuntu , so for any of the following reasons if you want to uninstall snaps from your system just follow along.

Uninstall Snaps

• Run the following command to list all snaps in your system.

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snap list

• Then remove snaps one by one by using the following command

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sudo snap remove --purge snap-name

Uninstall snapd

• After removing snaps you can completely remove snap by using the following command

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sudo apt remove --purge snapd

Delete snap cache

• Run the following commands to remove any snap configuration or cache files.

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sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/
rm -fr ~/snap # for home user
sudo rm -fr ~/snap # for root user

Hold snap package

• Run the following command to prevent snap from auto installing, for example, while installing the chromium package.

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sudo apt-mark hold snapd