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by therealmarv 2221 days ago
that are actually the small little things which are fast on a Mac. This seconds of thought are also clearly visible on some Ubuntu machines... Gnome is not always optimized and Snap programs make you think your laptop is frozen.
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konchunas 2221 days ago
Contrary to release notes latest Gnome 3 in Ubuntu 20.04 is slower on my machine compared to the previous one in 19.10. That's why I switched to XFCE which is super snappy. Not i3 snappy, but really close. I've also experienced increased startup time with Snap, Flatpak and AppImages regardless of DE.
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Dayshine 2220 days ago
> Not i3 snappy

i3 isn't even snappy, the default application launcher can take up to 10 seconds to open on my old laptop.

There is a faster application launcher you can use instead, but you have to hunt through github issues to find out about it. The i3 project maintainers seem to actively object to telling users about 3rd party components and simultaneously refuse to integrate them or improve the default behaviour.

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snazz 2220 days ago
Are you talking about dmenu? That's always been fast on my machine (sway, not i3).
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Dayshine 2220 days ago
Yup, although it's i3 not dmenu causing the problem.

https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/949

Reported 7 years ago...

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NullPrefix 2220 days ago
Are you talking about dmenu?
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Grumbledour 2220 days ago
I find Gnome in general to be terribly bloated. There are so many other options on linux that get you minimal looking desktops without eating your resources in the background.

Of course, the problem is often that with other options some assembly is probably required. But looking at the mess gnome extensions are, that might actually be not that much of a difference.

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microtonal 2220 days ago
That must be some Ubuntu-related issue, GNOME 3.26 on Wayland on NixOS is as snappy as it always was. Pretty much everything is instant.
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chesimov 2220 days ago
I have recently moved to a macbook pro for work, having used Ubuntu on my prior machine. In my experience, the mac (despite having significantly more modern specs) is more buggy and just not quite as snappy for these little things. Opening windows, menus, terminals takes longer (even with the swoopy animations turned off). Wake from sleep also takes longer, and a few times a week it is frozen for a few minutes on wake. Maybe I have a lemon.
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nl 2220 days ago
That sounds like something is wrong.

I'm a heavy Ubuntu and Mac user, and wake from sleep is much quicker on Mac (as in it wakes before I open the lid completely).

Multiple Macs, multiple Ubuntu machines (although I've given up trying to get a perfect Ubuntu laptop, so that's desktop only these days)

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joyj2nd 2220 days ago
Try Bodhi Linux. Then you learn about "snappy"
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