Snaps seem slow to launch

[pachulo]

Something is being done:

Improving first run performance of desktop app snaps

One thing that was bugging me about running snapped desktop apps was the time it took to start the first time around, or after an update. So I’ve been looking at ways to improve performance and the results are promising. I’ve been focusing on apps using the one of the cloud parts provided by snapcraft-desktop-helpers (e.g. desktop-gtk3, desktop-qt5, desktop-gnome-platform). I’ve mainly been focusing on snaps using the GNOME platform snap, but we should be able to get similar improvements in o…

But I don’t really know if something is going on for snaps not based in the gnome-3-26-1604.