Just incredible how often waking up my computer from sleep in 2025 makes it feel as sluggish as it felt in 1995 to do so.
We have so much better hardware 30 years later - but software bloat negates the hardware efficiency gains all too often.
Sigh.
We have so much better hardware 30 years later - but software bloat negates the hardware efficiency gains all too often.
Sigh.
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I am done with Microsoft.
It's annoying how much the macOS filesystem is slowing down each release. Mac hardware being faster than the competition is their saving grace.
Windows' abuse of COM/.NET/file system filter drivers means a clean break will be required.
Every open() call has to have much more logic to determine if it can go through, up to the point of showing UI to the user. It's a big deal to flow back from the kernel back to userland in a separate process (Finder).
It will only get worse from now on with all the code spittting machines
If developers read the former quote and think it excuses them from *any* work on optimization, then they have missed the point of the quote.
While the real problem is people being taught how to build apps and UIs on machines with more than 1MB of DRAM.
The fun fact, that it was extremely fast when I bought it 5 years ago, and I wouldn’t say that my tooling changed dramatically. Resource consumption by the new versions of the apps skyrocketed, though.
It’s not bad, but it happens 🤷♂️
I always shutdown now as sleep means nothing, and your TPM doesnt clear unless you do; that and windows update has woken my PC >1
Spotify and slack are an example of this
https://bsky.app/profile/seref.bsky.social/post/3lhecfzzads2b
Starting with the editor, but once gpui matures and is ready for other folks to build stable apps we hope it can help making building native, cross platform more accessible.
Compare a nice linux distro to Windows 11. You’ll notice the difference.
All people seem to point to is "there's an advert for Office in my start menu" and I just do not understand :)
Example from visiting my parents this weekend.
Microsoft had installed Netflix, Disney+, Candy Crush and a ton of other apps on her laptop without her consent. She doesn’t use any of those apps on her computer.
Those apps don't start and don't effect windows performance in any meaningful way. Maybe what, 100mb of space?
The ones I mentioned was third party vendors that was installed in a recent update with the possible implication that we used Disney+ and Netflix on their TV over the holidays when we visited. See the difference?
I was contemplating installing Linux on it, but I use it only for video games and 3D work, it wasn't worth it as I wouldn't use it as much.
I know Steam has released ProtonDB to make gaming more available on Linux. Hoping GOG will join them in doing something like this.
That's all stuff that takes up space, memory and uses the web. And god knows what it sends where.
(I bought a Mac mini recently and chuckled that there was probably more stuff in the box than with Windows).
Ads, weather, news, McAfee/etc. (Windows Defender is fine) etc. impact both experience as well as performance. (And privacy, but that's a whole other convo ;))
Google should not make software.
They do work well in Chrome based browsers. Still , even if you drive Safari, a single additional chrome runtime is better than n chrome runtimes
(I think inspired by this thread last night I’m going to try running Teams and Slack in Safari “add to dock” web apps and see how that goes. Slack scrolling is abysmally jank, but maybe Teams won’t log me out every day?)