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>Mac, Linux, iOS and Android all have the same sorts of issues. In Linux you have a choice. dmenu is instant for me. I bet there's a graphical that does what y
by LAC-Tech 5y ago
>Mac, Linux, iOS and Android all have the same sorts of issues.
In Linux you have a choice. dmenu is instant for me. I bet there's a graphical that does what you want, quickly.
- d110af5ccf 5y agoEchoing this. The mainstream compositors all seem to be plenty fast even on very old hardware provided that you have GPU acceleration. Ranger is written in Python of all things and spits out colored text (which has quite a bit of overhead) yet I hardly perceive any latency if I'm running in a decent VTE. In Android I don't recall the various stock AOSP components having any performance issues, just the custom carrier and vendor stuff.
- boring_twenties 5y agoWith Linux as of late, once heavy I/O is happening it doesn't matter what program is running because I can't even move the mouse cursor over to click anything.
- spicybright 5y agoWhat kind of hardware are you running where IO effects the mouse that bad?
- boring_twenties 5y agoi7-4770k A simple rsync from one hard drive to another is enough to make the system unusable until it completes.