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

On 2025-03-21, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:

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

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

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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.

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I've been running MXLinux for a long time, years in fact, but I tried out
the latest version of LinuxMint Cinnamon  and on the same hardware it is
much, much faster than MXLinux.
Especially with regards to loading browsers and surfing.
It was painfully slow under MXLinux. Browser didn't matter.
It's not even close.
I wasn't a fan of LinuxMint in the past but I sure am now.
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It's come a long way baby!

I've been using Linux Mint for about 17 years, so I don't know when it got
faster, but it does seem to improve with each update. So, for me, it's been
incremental improvements over the years. Kind of the opposite of Windows and
Mac, which get slower with each update on the same hardware.

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