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by syn_rst 3143 days ago
The hardware and OS are fine. The problem is the web platform and its towering stack of abstractions, combined with the occasional problem of focusing on aesthetics over utility.

I haven't yet experienced a web-based application that I actually enjoyed using. The closest anything ever gets is to make me wish it was a native application so I didn't have to deal with all the web nonsense in order to use it.
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fellowmartian 3143 days ago
The hardware is fine. I wouldn't say the same about OSes. Desktop experience with Linux is incoherent. Windows and OS X are legacy monsters with 20 years of piling new features on top of not exactly rock solid foundation. Every time I see a frame drop when switching desktops on my MacBook I get so angry, I mean, really? It's 2017, game graphics are almost indistinguishable from life, and we're still having trouble drawing a couple of rectangles as our desktops?
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Boothroid 3143 days ago
Desktop too - so many frameworks and runtimes and threading and associated overhead that many apps don't feel as tight as they used too.
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