It became obvious, to me anyway, that Ubuntu would continue to make snap increasingly central to their release, dragging Kubuntu along with it.
I decided to move and chose Debian 12 + Plasma desktop + BTRFS - snap shortly after it was released on June 10th.
On a lark I decided to try flatpak by enabling it from Discover. I had over two dozen flatpak packages installed. In effect, flatpak replaced dpkg. To add, list or remove a package installed with flatpak one has to use flatpak. I began to notice my system not being as fast as it used to be. Boot ups took 20-25 secs. Applications installed with flatpak were slower to load and had more frequent misbehavings. My principle app is Firefox because I do a lot of Internet searching for dev tools, science tools, etc. I used to be able to click on a link in an email and it would open in FireFox. Not any more. Firefox would open but was entirely dead. That was the last straw. I used flatpak to remove firefox and then installed the esr version from the repository using muon. It worked perfectly and was much faster. That's when I decided to lobotomize flatpak. I removed every app installed with flatpak and then I removed flatpak. I replaced all the flatpak apps with the same or similar apps using muon or dpkg. With my sanitized system I rebooted. My systemd-analyze times are 10-12 seconds and everything is much snappier.
So I am now snap and flatpak free and with a quicker system. I also removed Steam, but that's a story for another thread.
I decided to move and chose Debian 12 + Plasma desktop + BTRFS - snap shortly after it was released on June 10th.
On a lark I decided to try flatpak by enabling it from Discover. I had over two dozen flatpak packages installed. In effect, flatpak replaced dpkg. To add, list or remove a package installed with flatpak one has to use flatpak. I began to notice my system not being as fast as it used to be. Boot ups took 20-25 secs. Applications installed with flatpak were slower to load and had more frequent misbehavings. My principle app is Firefox because I do a lot of Internet searching for dev tools, science tools, etc. I used to be able to click on a link in an email and it would open in FireFox. Not any more. Firefox would open but was entirely dead. That was the last straw. I used flatpak to remove firefox and then installed the esr version from the repository using muon. It worked perfectly and was much faster. That's when I decided to lobotomize flatpak. I removed every app installed with flatpak and then I removed flatpak. I replaced all the flatpak apps with the same or similar apps using muon or dpkg. With my sanitized system I rebooted. My systemd-analyze times are 10-12 seconds and everything is much snappier.
So I am now snap and flatpak free and with a quicker system. I also removed Steam, but that's a story for another thread.
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