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Computers keep getting newer and better features. Cloud software is in my experience leaps and bounds faster than legacy software, AI features have helped subst
by FormerBandmate 4y ago
Computers keep getting newer and better features. Cloud software is in my experience leaps and bounds faster than legacy software, AI features have helped substantially and judging by ChatGPT will go on to help way more, videoconferencing has grown from a novelty to being able to handle people’s entire working lives (poorly, but better then not at all).
People have nostalgia for 98 and XP, but try to use any software from around that era and it’s the equivalent of riding a bicycle on a highway. Definitely not 5 km/hr slower every year
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> Cloud software is in my experience leaps and bounds faster than legacy software You and I must use disjoint sets of software then. For me, cloud software is universally slower than legacy software. Good chunk of it is because of the browser. The UI, by default, is jankier and slower for every interaction - to the point I can notice the delay on every click, which for desktop software even 15 years ago was true only when the machine was under large load - not literally all the time. And that's without considering UI interactions that block on network requests. And so, I find trivial webapps to be just jankier. For anything serious though, they're near-useless, as the performance drop prevents using the app or, in some cases, slows down the entire machine. 2D raster and vector editors, and 3D modelling software, is still done primarily as desktop apps for a reason.
- FormerBandmate 4y agoI regularly use database software and certain queries that take hours on the legacy server-based software take seconds on the cloud-based software
- kingboss 4y agoCloud-based software is server-based software. Cloud is just some damn servers that you don't own. There is no cLoUd. There are just servers.