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Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on
by chrsw 4y ago
Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop.
Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements to the overall user experience.
- prmoustache 4y ago> Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Surely you mean more efficiently. I would hate my music being speed up :-)
- function_seven 4y agoIf you don’t want to listen to the music fast, there’s a button on your machine called Turbo. Toggle that off.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoThis. I'm honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag. I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy. The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through notifications about topics I’m not interested in. I know there is a “turn off notifications” by conversation. But that’s not helpful when there are new conversations all the time.
- mijowi 4y agoMaybe azure is actually millions of idle windows machines instead of datacenters.
- piokoch 4y agoPhew, only those two things? How about not being able to copy stuff from chat (for some reason this does not work since Skype for Business times)? How about being kicked off from the current chat if one dares to open MS Word/Excel from within the chat? And that's just the beginning of the annoyance. But, luckily, we can easily integrate our chat with MS Stocks application, and, even better, with MS Power BI! I have always impression that MS employees cannot use Teams, otherwise they would have noticed that something gone really wrong here. On the other hand, those are people who gave the World the (in)famous Windows Millennium Edition, so everything is possible.
- trinsic2 4y agoI always here that Microsoft employees should know that their software never works that great. I often wonder somebody must know what Microsoft employees think. I mean, don't Microsoft employees talk to people outside of Microsoft?
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoSure, there are numerous other small annoyances, too. Ever try to paste code into a chat message and format it before sending it?
- kristopolous 4y agoI just disable all notifications. Life's better that way
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoCan't do that if I want to keep my job. Expectations.
- shaky-carrousel 4y ago
- prox 4y agoLibraries, libraries upon libraries all the way down. That’s modern software development.
- artificialLimbs 4y agoI use a 14" M1 MPB. The ARM version of Teams running on it is by far the best Teams experience I've had. I still loathe Teams overall, but we have to use it at work. It's definitely much less bad than it was on my 16GB Ryzen 4800u laptop.
- rejectfinite 4y agoIf you just need the chats, its actually lighter and faster in MS Edge than in the app Ive found. They are using some newer Edge shit in the web thats not yet ported to the app.
- benbristow 4y agoHmm, I just launched it on Edge and it does seem a lot faster than the desktop application. Hoping performance improvements are coming sooner rather than later.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoDoes it support basic video calls in edge? I don't use Windows all that often, and I've found that Outlook is much less annoying in a browser (even Firefox!) than the app. It feels less laggy.
- rejectfinite 4y agoVideo looks fully supported even. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients?tabs=Windows#browser-client https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients?... Yes, I too find that all Office apps is faster on the Web.
- readevalpanic 4y agoOlder software sometimes runs just as fast on older hardware, too. It’s anecdotal, but I never remember waiting on Winamp to start up. iTunes, on the other hand, has always seemed slow.
- dfxm12 4y agoIs that really an ahem apples to apples comparison? Depending on when we're talking, iTunes had many more built in features than Winamp...
- tanseydavid 4y agoLarge number of features is not a great excuse for slow start times.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoWinamp may be an unfair comparison. I'm not overly familiar with that period's iTunes, but I remember when I bought my first iPod, a 4th gen click wheel (don't remember the year, but it was already an "older model" at the time) I was using Amarok on Linux on an AMD Thunderbird with 256 MB of RAM. That thing would fly. And it did more than Winamp: it had an actual DB-backed music library, iPod interface, etc. Yet, a few years later, when I got a MacBook Pro with a dual-core CPU and 16 times the RAM, iTunes would still be painfully slow. And I don't remember it doing much more than Amarok. As a matter of fact, it was inferior on pretty much every metric I could think of.
- anthk 4y agoSimilar here. AMD Athlonb XP, Amarok, KDE3, no Arts, just Alsa and DMIX. 256MB of RAM and a Geforce2.
- addicted 4y agoI think you’ve got that backwards. iTunes had a fraction of the features Winamp did.
- papruapap 4y agoto be fair, Winamp is probably one of the smoothest softwares ever. A lot of new "native" apps have transitions and fancy effects that makes them as slow as the electron-based ones.
- Guillaume86 4y agoThat reminds me of Sonique, already had nice animations and felt just as fast as winamp IIRC.
- weinzierl 4y agoIf you like smooth software check out Justin Frankel's other stuff like Reaper.
- naillo 4y agoIdk. I just downloaded this for kicks and I find VLC a lot more snappy. I definitely felt noticable lag when switching between tabs with this.
- nearmuse 4y agoThis sounds weird. Have you abandoned native apps altogether? You must be using notepads, pdf viewers, terminals, etc. People are still constantly in touch with low latency and low-bug UI and I like to believe that because of this native apps will prevail in some form someday.
- werdnapk 4y agoFor me, anything built with react native is huge bloat.
- thefz 4y agoYes. Let's all dump JS-on-the-desktop and telemetry bloat.
- davidgerard 4y agoIt's disconcerting how small and fast LibreOffice is these days. Especially having used it since OpenOffice.org 638c, which was ... majestic.