Re: Shocking speed difference, Ubuntu vs. Linux Mint, Snap vs. Flatpak

On 2025-03-20, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:31:45 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>

If anyone out there is a fan of Snaps, then there is a chance they might
not be fans of Ubuntu itself. The idea of switching out the GNU tools
that work perfectly well in favour of rewritten Rust ones is just
idiotic. I would trust the people who produced the GNU tools decades ago
a lot more than the filthy hippies who will rewrite them in Rust for a
theoretical benefit in regards to memory.

>
I've been running Ubuntu as my main machine. I'm not a fan of GNOME but I
can live with it.  I can also like with snap, flatpak, and AppImage. 
Brave is the only app that shows up both in the snap and flatpak list.
There isn't a lot of consistency. Firefox and dotnet are snaps, Vim is a
flatpak.

I like to deal with Flatpaks in the terminal. Otherwise they tend to update
too often (at least they do in Linux Mint).

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