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by mikro2nd 2362 days ago
I think it's a desktop problem, too. TBH I don't know how things are over in the Mac/Win world, but over here in Linux land it's... not so good.

Boot used to be a small number of seconds. Now (on the rare occasions I'm forced to actually boot/reboot) I start the machine and bugger off to make coffee while it does its thing. I don't know what takes so fucking long, but it's in the range of 'several minutes'.

Starting apps likewise. I just started up an infrequently used picture-editing app a little while ago,... up towards a full minute of 'loading this crap', 'loading this other crap', etc.

And let's not mention Atom (an Electron app unless I've misunderstood something) -- so laggy for some things that should be near-instant that I'm developing an active hate.

Alright: get the hell off my lawn now!