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by mixmastamyk 1881 days ago
Yes, it is installed, running a daemon, and spamming mounts and filesystems (~/snap, /snap, etc) at boot up. Well known packages such as chromium convert themselves to snap without warning or permission, then proceed to load a lot slower because they have to be extracted from an image into memory.

Snap is not discrete in any sense of the word.