This has quietly become a pretty serious issue. Most software developers have simply stopped caring about systems with traditional HDDs. This is even true on Li

This has quietly become a pretty serious issue. Most software developers have simply stopped caring about systems with traditional HDDs. This is even true on Linux - I found out a while back that all the KDE developers are using SSDs, which is why they weren't fixing issues where startup time is affected by disk latency. I eventually gave in and bought a 250 GB SSD for my old laptop, there was simply no other option.