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I use neither, I tried to use both, but my main driver is a latop and even though I have a 1TB SSD I consider this to be eating a significant portion of my disk

• galgalesh 5y ago
  Note that, because snaps are stored compressed on disk, many snaps are smaller on disk than their regular package counterpart. Take the chromium package as an example. However, a bunch of snaps are full of unused libraries because a bunch of packagers use a shotgun approach to including libraries. I've seen a bunch of snaps which contain the entire build environment for the app itself, for example. After cleanup, such snaps are often only 1/3 of the original size. Because many snaps are created by app devs themselves, they don't all have the same quality as packages from the debian repository.