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At one point Ubuntu had lots of their built-in apps on snap. I distinctly remember firefox starting seconds faster than the simple calculator or system monitor
by ben-schaaf 6y ago
At one point Ubuntu had lots of their built-in apps on snap. I distinctly remember firefox starting seconds faster than the simple calculator or system monitor apps.
- rbanffy 6y agoIndeed. That the calculator takes longer to start than Firefox should have caused the project to be abandoned. I see the value of file system and dependency isolation, but it shouldn't result in such significantly degraded performance.
- ashtonkem 6y agoOr at least a hard stop on migrations until the performance characteristics were hashed out. Sadly I noticed a while ago that Windows began to outrun Ubuntu on my older machines; it doesn’t seem like Canonical really cares about performance anymore.
- rbanffy 6y agoI'm surprised Mark Shuttleworth allowed that. He has a very low tolerance to mistakes.
- tuatoru 6y agoTo me, Ubuntu's glory days were with 10.04. It seemed much more polished than the alternatives at that time. IIRC Shuttleworth took a more governance and less hands-on role after that, and Ubuntu started to focus on server and enterprise support.
- rbanffy 6y agoI saw him tearing people down in 2015-ish. And for much less than this.