I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Snap slowdowns have been supposedly fixed, but the only snap that updated their packaging to apply the fix was Mozilla’s Firefox (from what I’ve heard).
And there is a way to create a custom store other than Canonical’s (but it’s obscure and hidden, so I bet nobody would bother).
And snaps have better support for cli programs.
If snaps were as good as flatpaks (which I don’t think they are yet), and they were not made by Canonical (got them some extra bad rep), they could have been the dominant packaging platform. The issue is that their reputation precedes them. I don’t think Canonical can ever fix that.
TLDR: Snaps are not as bad as people make them out to be (anymore). It’s just that their reputation precedes them, and some of the solutions are there but are not in use.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Snap slowdowns have been supposedly fixed, but the only snap that updated their packaging to apply the fix was Mozilla’s Firefox (from what I’ve heard).
And there is a way to create a custom store other than Canonical’s (but it’s obscure and hidden, so I bet nobody would bother).
And snaps have better support for cli programs.
If snaps were as good as flatpaks (which I don’t think they are yet), and they were not made by Canonical (got them some extra bad rep), they could have been the dominant packaging platform. The issue is that their reputation precedes them. I don’t think Canonical can ever fix that.
TLDR: Snaps are not as bad as people make them out to be (anymore). It’s just that their reputation precedes them, and some of the solutions are there but are not in use.
The most important thing for apps to do for speedups is to use LZO compression and modern runtimes.
The Firefox snap did some Firefox specific optimizations, especially around its language packs, to speed things up.