I'd like it if things took five seconds instead of ten... But mostly they work. It's fast enough. CPU load is generally low enough for good battery life. It's

I'd like it if things took five seconds instead of ten... But mostly they work. It's fast enough. CPU load is generally low enough for good battery life. It's hard to complain when everything is so cheap and easy. 40 years ago we might have literally written letters for everyday utilitarian purposes. Even if you added a limit of 2 characters per second that you could type, I'd probably get used to it and say "Still faster and easier than a pen". And on top of that, stuff seems to get faster all the time. The new Ubuntu no doubt is packed with more code than ever... But it feels faster than Kubuntu. I assume they fixed some big in allocating resources or something. Every generation of software is more secure even if less private, subjectively I notice more reliability every year. These days we have watchdogs to restart broken apps. Maybe every day it's down for a minute. Back then, people didn't always add that, they just "Tried to get the code right"... And it would be fine for a year and then be down for hours. Modern software is more predictable. Overall quality might be less, it might crash weekly instead of monthly, but a reboot is far more likely to fix it, we have fewer places were your app writes a bad setting and now it never opens again till you manually edit something. We can always do better. We very much should. But I'm generally happy with the current state.of software, and most consumers seem to be too.