Would someone create an electron snap for this forum?

yes and yes, as i said, the very same snap works flawless on my 16.04 installs whihc both use the original 4.4 kernel … trying out a 16.10 ubuntu-gnome and a 17.04 ubuntu-gnome on the weekend i coundt get it to run on both without --devmode, which makes me think it is a kernel issue.