Public bug reported:
In a fresh install, standard applications like gnome-calculator and
gnome-system-monitor are installed as snaps. This results in a plethora of
mounted loopback devices for basically nothing. Never mind the slow
application startup times (seconds for gnome-system-monitor on a Ryzen 1700
with 32GB RAM and a Samsung EVO 960 on an M.2 interface).
Removing the snaps and going back to deb packages, the performance issues go
away.
I can understand using snaps for third-party commercial software, but
for the base system, the default debian package manager has served us
well. I consider pushing snaps for default gnome applications a bug,
and mismanagement of the system.
This does not happen on an upgraded Ubuntu (from 16.04LTS). Snap is
there, with no applications installed. That's how the default should
be.
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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
** Affects: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768448
Title:
Don't use snaps for default system packages
Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
In a fresh install, standard applications like gnome-calculator and
gnome-system-monitor are installed as snaps. This results in a plethora of
mounted loopback devices for basically nothing. Never mind the slow
application startup times (seconds for gnome-system-monitor on a Ryzen 1700
with 32GB RAM and a Samsung EVO 960 on an M.2 interface).
Removing the snaps and going back to deb packages, the performance issues go
away.
I can understand using snaps for third-party commercial software, but
for the base system, the default debian package manager has served us
well. I consider pushing snaps for default gnome applications a bug,
and mismanagement of the system.
This does not happen on an upgraded Ubuntu (from 16.04LTS). Snap is
there, with no applications installed. That's how the default should
be.
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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
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