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0 pointshydroxideOH-5y ago0 comments

I can't comment on it's security, but all of the snap apps I've used have an insanely high start up time that it's genuinely confusing how it could be so bad.

On my laptop with a latest gen ryzen cpu and nvme ssd, the Chromium Snap takes 30s-1 mins to launch, while the .deb launches in under a second. Same for Spotify, Discord and others that I've used. The start up time is so bad that I replaced them all for .deb versions which has been much better.

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013a5y ago

I have not noticed this in GUI applications, which generally have some overhead anyway so the snap overhead is negligible. I have noticed it on simple CLI applications, such as jq, where the snap is often 10x+ worse than native (but, we're talking 10x of microseconds; it enters the tens of milliseconds, which becomes noticeable, but its not horrible).

Snap startup overhead is a known issue. Its definitely a thing.

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