> Memory and CPU-wise, Flatpaks are very light containers
Adding to that: it's really worth noting, on "Memory Usage, Startup Time," the author of this article went straight into Snap ("the slowest of all") and doesn't mention Flatpak once. Could it be … it isn't a big deal? Nah, let's move on, Flatpak bad.
They also conveniently use an old version of GNOME Software which predates the recent rework of how it displays permissions, age ratings, and other details. In Fedora 35, GIMP most definitely has a worrisome "Unsafe" message. It's very shiny and new so it would be excusable to miss that if you weren't pretending to be a well-researched hatchet job.
I also can't replicate that snap apps take the same long amount of boot time every single time. Snaps generally take a few seconds on the first startup but then for me start more or less as fast as any other app.
Yep, as I understand it the Snap thing is also obsolete information. Older snaps are still slow, but new snaps are more efficient to start, and that has been the case for a while now.
Adding to that: it's really worth noting, on "Memory Usage, Startup Time," the author of this article went straight into Snap ("the slowest of all") and doesn't mention Flatpak once. Could it be … it isn't a big deal? Nah, let's move on, Flatpak bad.
They also conveniently use an old version of GNOME Software which predates the recent rework of how it displays permissions, age ratings, and other details. In Fedora 35, GIMP most definitely has a worrisome "Unsafe" message. It's very shiny and new so it would be excusable to miss that if you weren't pretending to be a well-researched hatchet job.