> For general user applications, yeah, performance isn't that big of a deal. Maybe if you use recent, powerful machines and don't particularly care about energ

> For general user applications, yeah, performance isn't that big of a deal. Maybe if you use recent, powerful machines and don't particularly care about energy efficiency. In my experience with less powerful machines, the applications which tend to be noticeably slow are exactly the widely used 'general user applications': of the ones I use, Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice and Thunderbird.