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psa: snapd leads to massive slowdowns in boot time
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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Because their sandboxing format subtly breaks so many applications (more than flatpak) and Canonical very nefariously co-opts your
apt install <package>with a deb package that's actually a stub to install the Snap version, so when your shit breaks, you can waste hours before you realize that they fucked your installation.Beyond that, Snap cold start times (installations or updates) are slow as shit (yes, even with LZO compression), and since each snap application can update on its own, you'll also encounter random times when your shit appears to "freeze" but what's actually happening is Canonical is busy polluting your loopback devices to decompress their shittified version of your app.