Re:Canonical Multipass – Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workst...
by rjzzleep on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:53PM
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I use neither, I tried to use both, but my main driver is a latop and even though I have a 1TB SSD I consider this to be eating a significant portion of my disk space. electron apps already are disk hungry enough on their own.
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Re:Canonical Multipass – Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workst...
by galgalesh on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:59PM
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Note that, because snaps are stored compressed on disk, many snaps are smaller on disk than their regular package counterpart. Take the chromium package as an example.
However, a bunch of snaps are full of unused libraries because a bunch of packagers use a shotgun approach to including libraries. I've seen a bunch of snaps which contain the entire build environment for the app itself, for example. After cleanup, such snaps are often only 1/3 of the original size.
Because many snaps are created by app devs themselves, they don't all have the same quality as packages from the debian repository.