Snaps & flatpacks

[Tom H]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:10 AM Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> 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.

I was talking about the snap format and the dpkg format, not real or
perceived slowness.