[sheepdestroyer]

I want my systems functional, efficient, snappy.

One of the first things I do on a new device is to disable animations and similar "eye candy". On Gnome it's hidden, but can be changed with gnome-tweek-tools ; on Android it's hidden too, in the developer options that you have to unlock (7 taps on build number).

In both cases, those animations easily lose frames and are distracting, without talking about the frivolous power spending on portable devices, but they are enabled by default and not easily removed.

It bugs me to jo end that wrong priorities seem to apparently be the norm.

[Krssst]

Note: when disabling animations on GNOME, a noticeable delay seems to remain before the alt-tab switcher appears.

I don't remember which extension I use to work around that; maybe this one: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1317/alt-tab-switcher...

[d_tr]

I like gsettings. You can just put the calls in a script once and call it whenever needed. You can access everything from there. You can search for relevant keys from the terminal or with dconf editor.

[kaba0]

If implemented well it shouldn’t cost too much energy, it is basically interpolating a value and redrawing it a few times with the GPU.