I have completely uninstalled the snapd service from my Ubuntu machine. This seems to have given me a faster system, Firefox loads faster and the boot is faster overall. The snapd service was taking 50 seconds to load upon booting, now that it is gone. it is a fair bit faster to boot.
I ran this command first. This erased the /var/cache/snapd folder.
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/ |
Then remove the snapd service and the gnome-software center plugin.
sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap |
Once this is done, delete the snap folder in your home directory.
rm -fr ~/snap |
This will remove a lot of packages from your system, it uninstalled a bunch of Linux kernel packages, but my system came straight back up after a reboot. It is a little faster to boot now, but it still needs work.
4.4 Tue May 26 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ systemd-analyze blame 46.167s docker.service 41.865s mysql.service 22.607s dev-mapper-fedora\x2droot.device 20.227s systemd-journal-flush.service 18.257s postfix@-.service 16.723s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 15.688s timidity.service 13.230s tor@default.service 12.788s networking.service 12.206s apport-autoreport.service 10.248s smbd.service 10.112s nmbd.service 10.068s apache2.service 9.327s speech-dispatcher.service 8.659s tor.service 8.553s xrdp-sesman.service 8.510s NetworkManager.service 8.452s lm-sensors.service 8.445s landscape-client.service 8.431s networkd-dispatcher.service 8.354s rsyslog.service 8.313s pppd-dns.service 7.764s apparmor.service 7.431s libvirtd.service 6.475s systemd-udevd.service 5.718s systemd-logind.service 4.885s accounts-daemon.service 4.842s nftables.service 3.907s xrdp.service 3.703s wpa_supplicant.service 3.687s grub-common.service 3.626s ssh.service 3.346s lvm2-monitor.service |
But this is well worth trying anyway, this does give a faster boot if you have no intentions of using snap at all.