Thor A. Hopland<p>Let's just face facts, folks.</p><p><a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> Discover is faster than <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> software, but <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/COSMIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COSMIC</span></a> Store has them beat - and partly to blame is <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/PackageKit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PackageKit</span></a>.</p><p>There's a point where "seperation of concerns" goes awry, and this abstraction of package managers is imho one such example.</p><p>This is ofc a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> issue. If we compare with say <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/AppStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppStore</span></a> or <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/PlayStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlayStore</span></a> or <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/MicrosoftStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftStore</span></a> even, we can sort of feel our way to how each are sluggish in their own way.</p><p>But some of those GNOME Software loading times? Goddamn.</p>