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In case you're looking for a package of Thunderbird that takes a while to launch.
by eznzt 6y ago
In case you're looking for a package of Thunderbird that takes a while to launch.
- sgt 6y agoWhat's a while?
- Spivak 6y agoHowever long it takes (on your system) to extract and mount a squashfs on a loopback device, link, and run. Snap made an uhh.. odd architectural decision with that one. The whole squashfs game doesn't actually buy you that much compression in practice but if you have slower CPU it will grind you to a halt. I think it's kinda weird they went this route since this dance seems mostly unrelated to the actual value of Snaps which is "here's your app self-contained-ish."
- sgt 6y agoCould it perhaps be fixed by having some kind of Snap cache for frequently used apps? At the expense of a little disk space, but vastly improving load times.