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Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by phatfish on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:33PM (#23434787)
With windows update the trick since MS enforced a similar update policy is to change the user the Windows Update service runs under to an account that doest have the required permissions.

Not sure if that would work with Ubuntu though ;)

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Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by em-bee on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:59PM (#23436136)
i am surprised that this is possible under windows. for ubuntu, it should be possible to disable the daemon that runs the update checks. at worst by hacking a script where the process is started.
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