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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My first introduction to them was "hey why does startup take so long now? This machine used to be so much faster." and realizing it was snapd that was eating up the time. It's also not exactly efficient at using storage compared to native installs of dependencies.

For a desktop these may not be noticable but for low power embedded systems it's a nightmare. It should be an option but really isn't ready to be default. And when appimages are already a thing that work well I don't really see the point.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Appimage has no sandbox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

An AppImage can be sandboxed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not suggesting appimages are better, just that I've had fewer problems with them relative to snaps. Ultimately I'd argue all attempts to remove dependencies are not ready to replace typical packages for low powered systems. For desktop Linux the performance difference is negligible anyway.