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  • You’re not getting it…

    A 125MB package like Firefox has up to 5 versions by default kept under the Snap system. Do this 10x across different packages, and suddenly you’re missing a lot of storage you can’t account for.

    Second, SNAP IS JUST SLOW. People don’t like when it takes 5-10 seconds to launch a very simple app. Let’s not even get into the performance being absolutely horrendous when you need direct access to memory or GPU. It’s not what people want.

    Last, your problem with Nvidia drivers lies with Nvidia themselves. I run a cluster of a thousand instances which never hiccup on the Nvidia server+CUDA drivers.

    Desktop is a shit show, and that’s their fault. Don’t blame your misunderstanding of these two things to be the fault of the distro.



  • It’s relevant for a few reasons with regard to new users:

    1. Snap is SLOW
    2. Snap takes up a massive amount of space

    Switching somebody with 256GB of storage to Ubuntu and pointing them to the Gonna software store to install whatever they want is just asking for confusion and problems.

    What happened to all my disk space?

    Why does it take 8 seconds for a browser to start?

    These are new users who expect things to operate as they’ve known them to operate coming from Windows or MacOS. Ubuntu is just problematic to that point of view.

    I’ve switched hundreds of desktop users in the past few years, and the above expectations and experience is what made me switch to Fedora.

    Ubuntu is problematic at current.