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by CarelessExpert
2113 days ago
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> The real problem for me though is that snaps are slow as hell. I mean like taking 4-5+ seconds to open on a box with an SSD, i7, and 64GB of RAM. That's unacceptable. Spotify is specifically one of the snaps I use and frankly, I noticed it seemed to start a little slow but just assumed that was because of Electron or something. I literally don't care and never thought anything of it. I run it, it starts, and then I don't close it. Besides, if Spotify users reject it, they can always switch to PPA or something else. It's their choice. > apt now seems to be giving me snaps instead of debs for a great deal of programs, "a great deal"? I've seen two mentioned, chromium and lxd. Where else have you encountered this where Debian has a package available from a maintainer but a snap shim is used instead? Apt will also tell you a snap is available if there's no deb but that's just useful information. |
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Some apps, like Chromium have no alternative ppas available.
I installed KDE Neon 20.04 and when I discovered that Chromium was being switchted to snap, I searched for any current *.deb out there. NO proper ppas, just found some outdated Chromium 1-3 versions behind the current version.
If it wasn't for the KDE from Neon, I would have switched of distro in the hour. I switched to Chrome instead.
Got some old compiled Chromium just to have the thing available (I can just run it when I need it, it takes maybe 1/4 of sec to start).
Just hope Canonical doesn't try its snap thing in more critical packages or (FAR) worst, in the LTS server versions.
I would be getting popcorn to see the show when half the Internet start to ditch the LTS overnight over some half-propietary half-baked software being put in charge of its otherwise perfectly GPLed infrastructures.