Canonical's Snap Packaging Switching To LZO Compression For Faster Startup Times

[zzarko]

On my Ubuntu 18.04 system on SSD, GIMP with all its plugins loading starts in under 5 seconds, while Gnome Calculator (from Snap) needs more than 10. And that is every time I need it, more than 10 seconds for it to show its window. I uninstalled it and installed MATE version, that starts instantly.

[geearf]

Snap was made in part in order to provide a universal packaging system for systems including Ubuntu touch, which used the Android kernel. If they had known in advance that they wouldn't finish Ubuntu Personal, then it's possible that they would've made it differently.

I think Android has been a greater limitation than Debian or CentOS, but I'm sure they consider them important.

Thank you!

[jo-erlend]

Thank you!

My pleasure. Literally. It's so nice when people just ask real questions.