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Ubuntu 24.04 will use Thunderbird Snap instead of DEB (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've tried a few big apps in flatpak form, and usually they're much bigger, and noticeably (many seconds) slower to start up. (Haven't tried one with less than 4 cores, so can only imagine they being much slower.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You wanted to say snaps are slower, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, could've been clearer, my experiences apply to snaps and flatpaks. Huger and slower. And I imagine that on older machines, with fewer cores, slower drives or less ram, possibly unuseable. (Don't know.)

I do know that I'm seeing a lot less 'Electron' - framework apps (FAT and cycles-sucking) being released these days, doesn't seem too popular.

Appimages are easier to install but have only tried a couple. 'Stellarium.appImage' is MUCH slower to load, but OK in operation.

I'd enjoy hearing the -measured numbers- and how many people prefer prefer these FAT formats and why.