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Personally I couldn't give a shit about startup time. I start most of my apps when I boot my machine and I rarely if ever close any of them or turn my machine o

by jpgvm 6y ago

Personally I couldn't give a shit about startup time. I start most of my apps when I boot my machine and I rarely if ever close any of them or turn my machine off. I care about how fast said applications do their job, that they remain responsive and don't suffer from instability. Maybe I am just old/desktop user. My machine is a 9900K + 32GB RAM which is definitely fast but it's not absurd. With this amount of RAM I never feel the need to close anything other than to tidy up my list of open tabs so I can see the icons without scrolling again.

ShroudedNight 6y ago
> My machine is a 9900K + 32GB RAM which is definitely fast but it's not absurd. The 9900k appears to have similar compute throughput to a Top 500 supercomputer from 2004, a time when my Northwood P4 with 512MB RAM, and Radeon 8500 were quite comfortable running Firefox at 1600x1200 @ 85hz. A 9900K + 32G quite frankly represents an embarrassment of computing riches and the marginal improvements in end-user experience since then (mostly in the form of additional screen real estate) betray just how little we've done with that compute that truly benefits the user.