https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 - Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened? (2023-06-23)
Follow up to the above by the original author:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 - Fast machines, slow machines (2023-06-28)
Also Windows NT was released in 1993 when typical PCs were more like 100MHz, so this is getting a 6x speedup from the designed experience.
https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html
The point is that the good old days aren't just pure nostalgia, some parts were genuinely good compared to modern bloated software.
Now we don't have such excuse, at least for non networked apps.
If you're gonna do that, then remember how much faster a well-expanded Amiga was. Even faster than any real 68k Mac when emulating Mac.
Also, it’s pointless to open a menu in less time than it takes the screen to refresh.
No, that would be the goal.
Once should be quite enough.
https://userbase.kde.org/Tips/Enable_fun_desktop_effects_on_...
I am pretty sure this is good old resistance to change. You would disabled them on all your systems, then force yourself to use them that way for a month and I am pretty sure that "disorientation" would quickly disappear.
