There are two types of tasks that run on my computer. Tasks I told it to do, and tasks someone else told it to do (with my begrudging acceptance). The former c

There are two types of tasks that run on my computer. Tasks I told it to do, and tasks someone else told it to do (with my begrudging acceptance). The former category has always felt fast to me. Word processing, programming/scripting, number crunching, compiling code, viewing documents, etc. The latter category is what feels slow even to this day, on high-end hardware. - OS/software updates that take hours (monstly on Windows/macOS). - Janky animations that drop frames (Discord "stickers"). - Webpages overloaded with useless JS. - Horrendously slow backend webservers (technically nothing to do with my computer, but it affects my UX nontheless)