4 ms·
I have the same obsession for speed and I have given up on desktop environments years ago, ending up on with i3 and mostly CLI. These past years I was forced fo
by trabant00 4y ago
I have the same obsession for speed and I have given up on desktop environments years ago, ending up on with i3 and mostly CLI. These past years I was forced for some periods to work on macOS, Windows and Gnome. While they clearly work I simply can not stand them. My muscle memory starts an application then immediately start typing and to my surprise something else happens, because the app has not started yet and I still have focus in another window or in the desktop. Or I chain keyboard shortcuts and the same unexpected results happen because the previous command has not completed. It forces me to wait and pay attention to what the system is doing and this annoys me to no end.
I know plenty of people being a lot more productive than me using slow and not very ergonomic environments. So I understand this is just an obsession of mine and not necessarily justified. But once I got used to instant everything it's so hard going back.
- kovac 4y agoSame here. Nowadays, I check out CLI applications before committing to a GUI version. All those seconds I shave off by not waiting for things to load for too long, hardly having to leave the keyboard have a lot of advantage. It just takes more time to get used to initially.
- patrulek 4y agoIm so accustomed that apps doesnt show immediately, that i would feel weird if that would suddenly changed, lol.
- kaba0 4y agoHow is starting up an application faster in i3? There is a fundamental problem of slow GUI startup on desktops solved by mobile OSs, but not much faster desktop PCs.