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I've found snaps to be a mixed bag. For firefox I've found it extremely annoying. When the snap updated in the background: 1. Pinning the desktop icon to the
by rhdunn 2y ago
I've found snaps to be a mixed bag.
For firefox I've found it extremely annoying. When the snap updated in the background:
1. Pinning the desktop icon to the toolbar is annoying ... the desktop file is in a snap folder that keeps changing, so would disappear.
2. It showed the "you need to restart firefox in X days" notification frequently; I wasn't able to find a way to stop it reshowing the notification after dismissing it.
3. Updates caused firefox to crash if the underlying snap folder gets removed.
4. Keeping profile information across the snaps is not easy; I've had updates reset the profiles to the base.
For IntelliJ IDE I've not had issues thus far. I'm not sure if this is because it hasn't been updated enough to encounter the above issues.
- tecleandor 2y agoAnd Firefox also started way, way slower than the "native" deb packaged version! (at least for me)
- Izkata 2y agoSnaps use a compressed disk image, which is uncompressed and mounted the first time the process is run after startup. All of them are slower on first startup than their non-snap counterparts. And unmounting these during shutdown can cause the shutdown to take a minute longer than expected. That may have been a bug that was fixed since I found out about it, though.