Snaps & flatpacks

Paul Smith paul at mad-scientist.net
Sun Sep 6 22:08:50 UTC 2020


On Sun, 2020-09-06 at 22:14 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> No one ever likes change. There's no technical reason to claim that
> snap-installed apps are worse than apt/dnf/emerge/pacman-installed
> apps.

There absolutely is at least one excellent technical reason: snaps are
significantly slower to start up than native applications.

Compare, for example, the time needed to start the native GNOME
calculator app to the time needed to start the snap GNOME calculator
app.





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