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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by philliphaydon on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:35PM (#23052841)
What’s wrong with the windows one? It’s instant and it calculates things?!?
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by CarVac on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:56PM (#23053051)
It takes a couple seconds to start the first time you launch it. Very much not instant.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by lonelappde on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:16PM (#23053241)
What about the second time?
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by BenjiWiebe on Saturday May 02, 2020 @02:43PM (#23053922)
Then it's in cache.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by firmnoodle on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:14PM (#23053216)
Yeah, I'm confused as well. I just tried Calc on win10 for the first time in weeks or months and it opened before I could count 2 seconds. This is from a SSD where it won't have been in cache.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by jandrese on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:56AM (#23068103)
2 seconds isn't instant.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by philliphaydon on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:20PM (#23110388)
It's 100% instant on my computer. No delay from pressing enter and it opening.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by umvi on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:55PM (#23053042)
IIRC it tries to connect to the internet in the background to download currency exchange rates
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