Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
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Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#2Good to see that I am not alone at being upset about the current snap vs. deb vs. flatpak Ubuntu situation. I always considered a unified package management system as a huge plus.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#3The last time I installed the Ubuntu, I noticed gnome calculator took over a second to start in a VM on a new >$2500 laptop.
I switched to a .deb, and it was instantaneous. Then I switched back to devuan and have been happy since.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#4The last time I installed the Ubuntu, I noticed gnome calculator took over a second to start in a VM on a new >$2500 laptop. I switched to a .deb, and it was instantaneous. Then I switched back to devuan and have been happy since.
The calculator was a snap in Ubuntu 18.04 as an experiment.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#5The last time I installed the Ubuntu, I noticed gnome calculator took over a second to start in a VM on a new >$2500 laptop. I switched to a .deb, and it was instantaneous. Then I switched back to devuan and have been happy since.
A good time to ask I suppose: Is Devuan stable and does it carry security updates and package repositories equivalent to normal Debian? If so I'll probably switch myself.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#6Was going to suggest he try Pop, glad to see he already is! Solves the problem while being excellent in every other way.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#7> I hate that Chromium’s snap takes more than 10 seconds to load on cold boot on a freaking SSD, whereas .deb and Flatpak apps load in 1-2 seconds.
Can someone verify this? As someone who will eventually upgrade to 20.04, this is concerning.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#8> I hate that Chromium’s snap takes more than 10 seconds to load on cold boot on a freaking SSD, whereas .deb and Flatpak apps load in 1-2 seconds. Can someone verify this? As someone who will eventually upgrade to 20.04, this is concerning.
It takes about 5 seconds for me off an NVMe SSD. For comparison Firefox (installed with apt) starts in under a second.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#9> I hate that Chromium’s snap takes more than 10 seconds to load on cold boot on a freaking SSD, whereas .deb and Flatpak apps load in 1-2 seconds. Can someone verify this? As someone who will eventually upgrade to 20.04, this is concerning.
Clean install, Ubuntu 20.04. Chromium starts in around a second.
Re: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
#10this is one of those; ignorance is bliss. i havent noticed snap being slower and now I risk noticing and getting annoyed over it.