TIL: Snaps Are Secretly Eating Your Disk Space (Here’s How to Fix It) 🐧

Short summary

Snap package manager quietly keeps the last 2-3 versions of installed applications to enable rollbacks, but this consumes gigabytes of disk space over time. Run snap list --all to find disabled versions, then use snap remove to purge them. Similarly clean up Flatpak orphaned runtimes with flatpak uninstall --unused to potentially recover 2-10GB.

• •Snap hoards old app versions by default for rollback capability, wasting 2-10GB over time
• •Use snap remove with disabled versions to reclaim space automatically
• •Clean Flatpak orphaned runtimes with flatpak uninstall --unused

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