Even data drives I just use for storing files, have them. Don't tell me there is some complex technical reason why I need them because the HDDs work fine without them. Computers are not fickle: if something is necessary it is always necessary.
Just lately I got fed up with the snap store since I became convinced that it wasn't just scripts that were slowing my computer to a crawl, or even freezing it; something else was going on.
As an experiment I got rid of the snap store (well as much as I could, since it seems to be involved with my browser and I have yet to get round to fully migrating to Tor). When I did this to my astonishment several virtual partitions got killed. Now apart from Firefox I don't use snap.
So what are they for? Strangely the computer seems to be running a lot better without them.
The smudged out boxes below (on the left) seem to match the partitions. They may be applications I have killed off (though I don't know of any that are missing) but if so why would they have their own partitions?
Jonathan Brind