Is it good idea to delete snap in Ubuntu 22.04

I don't use snap, and I am going to do fresh installation of 22.04 version. So can I remove snap without having any issues.

Also, please tell me did I have to follow different steps in order to do that, or it's simply the same as doing it in previous versions.

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Let's address some of these questions individually:

Q. Is it good idea to delete snap in ubuntu 22.04?

⇢ "Good" is rather subjective here, as everyone will use their computers differently. You most certainly can remove Snap from Ubuntu. Whether it's better or not will be for you to decide.

Q. Can i remove snap without having any issues?

⇢ This depends on whether you can find replacement packages for some of the things that run as Snaps. On a stock 22.04 installation, snap list will show the following:

Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core18 20220309 2344 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core20 20220318 1405 latest/stable canonical✓ base
firefox 99.0.1-1 1232 latest/stable/… mozilla✓ -
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 161 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.1f9014a 99 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-79-ga83e90c 1534 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
snap-store 41.3-59-gf884f48 575 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.55.3 15534 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd

If none of these are needed, then you should have no issues after removing Snap from your system.

^{Aside: In the event you would like to replace Snap with Flatpak, this script from Alan Pope may be of interest to you.}

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