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Subject: Re: Shocking speed difference, Ubuntu vs. Linux Mint, Snap vs.
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:02:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-03-18 12:58, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:33:50 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Having discovered that Ubuntu intends to replace the GNU utilities with
>>> Rust equivalents which may or may not work as well in the coming months,
>>> I switched over to Linux Mint 22.1 from Ubuntu 24.04 on this old Macbook
>>> Air 2017. Not only does it bundle the necessary, proprietary wireless
>>> drivers allowing for a smooth install unlike Ubuntu, but Linux Mint runs
>>> a _lot_ faster under Cinnamon than Ubuntu's implementation of GNOME. I
>>> imagine that most of it is due to the use of Snap. For example,
>>> LibreOffice went from taking about ten seconds to load (on a cold start)
>>> to one or two.
>> 
>> I don't have a Macbook or a Cinnamon installation but LibreOffice Writer
>> comes up in less than 2 seconds on my Ubuntu box. Also, it is not a snap.
>
> The fact that it isn't a Snap is probably the reason. My experience with 
> Snap has always been that it takes time to load the first time around, 
> but that it is fast every other time. However, I've never run Ubuntu on 
> as slow a laptop as this one is. On this machine, using Snap is 
> masochism. Ubuntu itself is also not as fast as you would expect a Linux 
> distribution which also caters to older machines would be.

I'm guessing there's a good chance that it has something to do with the Snap 
overhead, and maybe Wayland.

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