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I generally feel the same way and sometimes ask myself if I'm living in the same world as some people. Almost everyone complains about Gmail being slow but I d

I generally feel the same way and sometimes ask myself if I'm living in the same world as some people. Almost everyone complains about Gmail being slow but I don't find it unbearable. I keep it open in a Firefox tab and use it all the time. I have Slack running natively (well, as native as it can get) and it seems to work fine on both my Linux and macOS machines. I guess I'm happy as long as the keyboard response is (very) good. The only time I notice real slowdowns are when my actions get out of sync with the system. A slow terminal or text editor drives me insane and is one reason I really can't use VSCode; Sublime Text never makes me wait. Granted, there are things that are genuinely slow for me and drive me up a wall (ie. most issue tracking) but overall, I'd say that my daily use is pretty good. It's certainly not bad enough that I would offload my browsing to some cloud based system. But like you, I'm probably not the target market here.

Zanneth 5y ago
Maybe it's been a while since you've used a good native app. Sometimes we forget just how fast computers can be without any of the mountains of abstractions that we've piled on.
- Corrado 5y ago
  Possibly. I guess the "fastest" program I use on a daily basis is Sublime Text, which is native on multiple platforms. I never have a slowdown, even on very large files. It instantly responds to keyboard input, which is a must in a text editor. Basically, it's perfect (for my definition of perfect). I've seen people say things like "Safari is much faster than Chrome" but I don't really see it. Sure, it can seem a bit quicker on some sites but most of the time I don't really notice it. I do notice things like CPU and energy usage between those two browsers, but I'm mostly plugged into power all day anyway so it doesn't make any practical difference which one I use. Perhaps when I get a new M1 machine (ie. 2021 16" MBP!!) I'll feel differently. Perhaps.

Zanneth 5y ago

Maybe it's been a while since you've used a good native app. Sometimes we forget just how fast computers can be without any of the mountains of abstractions that we've piled on.

Corrado 5y ago
Possibly. I guess the "fastest" program I use on a daily basis is Sublime Text, which is native on multiple platforms. I never have a slowdown, even on very large files. It instantly responds to keyboard input, which is a must in a text editor. Basically, it's perfect (for my definition of perfect). I've seen people say things like "Safari is much faster than Chrome" but I don't really see it. Sure, it can seem a bit quicker on some sites but most of the time I don't really notice it. I do notice things like CPU and energy usage between those two browsers, but I'm mostly plugged into power all day anyway so it doesn't make any practical difference which one I use. Perhaps when I get a new M1 machine (ie. 2021 16" MBP!!) I'll feel differently. Perhaps.