Canonical Announces ETrace As New Linux Application Tracing For Performance/Debugging

[edwaleni]

Google Chrome does not have a snap.

Chromium does. That is where I got crossed up. Thanks.

[plinkyplonky]

I have noticed that some software, such as Audacity is unreliable in flatpak. What really annoys me about snaps is that when I do a df, I have several lines of snap based applications that fill up my screen.

[Veto]

I have had less issues with snaps than flatpaks.

Although I would rather like flatpak (for its neutrality), I must agree with you. E.g. the VSCode flatpak is almost useless, as it cannot break its sandbox and use the system CLI tools. The snap VSCode just works...

I don't know if snap security is worse than flatpak in general, but sandboxing is a nuisance for tools that need to integrate well with the host system.

[cl333r]

Google Chrome does not have a snap.

He probably meant Chromium which is a snap package on Ubuntu.

How many traces we have?

dtrace, ftrace, ktrace, ptrace, strace, and now etrace?
How much until we have a whole alphabet of traces?

Isn't this just Canonical's NIH over and over?

Well this is focusing on GUI applications, and things like "time until application window becomes visible" aren't covered under the other *trace programs as far as I know. This is a very useful and important performance profiling tool, I just wish it was more focused on flatpaks than snaps. Snaps and Mir are the real NIH.

[om26er]

Some privacy folk are disturbed at the ability of Snaps to be updated at a root level without user authorization.

The snap for Google Chrome apparently does this with impunity.

If this is incorrect, please post.

Google Chrome does not have a snap.

[Jumbotron]

if applicaation(flatpak) on your distro(ubuntu) works suboptimally, the only one to blame is distro vendor. not "pulseadudio breaks my sound" but "ubuntu breaks my sound"

Which is precisely why I tested it on my Fedora machine. Pretty much same results. Snaps generally run better on Fedora than Flatpaks.

[tildearrow]

How many traces we have?

dtrace, ftrace, ktrace, ptrace, strace, and now etrace?
How much until we have a whole alphabet of traces?

Isn't this just Canonical's NIH over and over?

[pal666]

If Flatpaks can't overcome that situation and Snaps can...well...Flatpaks are at fault for that..

if applicaation(flatpak) on your distro(ubuntu) works suboptimally, the only one to blame is distro vendor. not "pulseadudio breaks my sound" but "ubuntu breaks my sound"

[simonsaysthis]

I have had less issues with snaps than flatpaks.

I second that, especially for third-party apps. I didn't care for all the anti-Canonical propaganda and just looked for a solution that serves my needs.