psa: snapd leads to massive slowdowns in boot time (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 2 weeks ago by bunitor@lemmy.eco.br to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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i run debian 13 on my laptop. it runs on a 5200rpm hard disk, so some bootup slowdown is to be expected, but it got really bad for some reason. booting up could take up to 3 minutes just to get to the display manager

after running systemd-analyze blame i found the two main culprits: docker and snapd. i had snapd and flatpak installed so that i could have access to as many applications as i could, but it seems that snaps have a huge amount of overhead. i knew about the one million mountpoints caused by snaps, but the amount of services they have to start on boot surprised me. snapd alone took 30 seconds to start and then there were its dependencies

my boot time is now down to 1min 50s. i recommend anyone who still has snapd installed on a non-ubuntu distro to uninstall it

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[-] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Canonical does a lot of bad shit, but switching to uutils is not one of them. The "challenges" are expected because it's going in a non-LTS release, which is basically meant to be a beta of the next LTS. And those challenges are being quickly addressed as they're being surfaced. This is exactly the right way to introduce something new, IMO.

I don't like the uutils pushover license license though :/

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