[vladvasiliu]

Windows RDP used to be great, but now they figured they'd put animations and transparencies all over the place, so it's become very frustrating to use. Even over a local Gigabit network.

[easton]

You can turn off effects to restore amazing performance (I know on the Mac version it’s the “optimize for retina displays” option).

[vladvasiliu]

I'm talking about effects on the server side. Launching edge for the first time is a major pain, for example.

[pxc]

Edge has a ton of visual noise by default. For me, it's pretty disorienting.

I watched a colleague use VSCode earlier today and was kinda shocked at the amount of pop-ups, and also how they'd cover the active pane, including what the developer was typing.

My attention system isn't built for modern Microsoft apps, I think.