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Subject: Re: Shocking speed difference, Ubuntu vs. Linux Mint, Snap vs.
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:39:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-20, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:31:45 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> If anyone out there is a fan of Snaps, then there is a chance they might
>> not be fans of Ubuntu itself. The idea of switching out the GNU tools
>> that work perfectly well in favour of rewritten Rust ones is just
>> idiotic. I would trust the people who produced the GNU tools decades ago
>> a lot more than the filthy hippies who will rewrite them in Rust for a
>> theoretical benefit in regards to memory.
>
> I've been running Ubuntu as my main machine. I'm not a fan of GNOME but I 
> can live with it.  I can also like with snap, flatpak, and AppImage.  
> Brave is the only app that shows up both in the snap and flatpak list. 
> There isn't a lot of consistency. Firefox and dotnet are snaps, Vim is a 
> flatpak. 

I like to deal with Flatpaks in the terminal. Otherwise they tend to update 
too often (at least they do in Linux Mint).

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