Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by ben-schaaf on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:05AM (#24384075)

At one point Ubuntu had lots of their built-in apps on snap. I distinctly remember firefox starting seconds faster than the simple calculator or system monitor apps.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by rbanffy on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:22PM (#24384720)

Indeed. That the calculator takes longer to start than Firefox should have caused the project to be abandoned.

I see the value of file system and dependency isolation, but it shouldn't result in such significantly degraded performance.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by ashtonkem on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:45PM (#24384913)

Or at least a hard stop on migrations until the performance characteristics were hashed out.

Sadly I noticed a while ago that Windows began to outrun Ubuntu on my older machines; it doesn’t seem like Canonical really cares about performance anymore.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by rbanffy on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:56PM (#24386784)

I'm surprised Mark Shuttleworth allowed that. He has a very low tolerance to mistakes.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by tuatoru on Saturday September 05, 2020 @06:05PM (#24387218)

To me, Ubuntu's glory days were with 10.04. It seemed much more polished than the alternatives at that time.

IIRC Shuttleworth took a more governance and less hands-on role after that, and Ubuntu started to focus on server and enterprise support.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by rbanffy on Sunday September 06, 2020 @04:16PM (#24394324)

I saw him tearing people down in 2015-ish. And for much less than this.

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