My point isn’t that they couldn’t or shouldn’t be more efficient, it’s that there’s no market pressure. No incentives means no change in behaviour. The only way

My point isn’t that they couldn’t or shouldn’t be more efficient, it’s that there’s no market pressure. No incentives means no change in behaviour. The only way to fix it is to change the incentives, otherwise we’re just in “old man yells at clouds” territory. Besides, you could essentially do what you’re describing by piecing together a Linux desktop from a lean distro. It’s not hard to find efficient software, it’s just not really mainstream