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Your remark about modern computers being really fast and software still managing to be slow doesn't just apply to Atom, really lots of software is frustrating in that way. Maybe that's why people accept this as normal: because sadly it is. Try opening an "Open file" dialog on basically any modern desktop...

More and more I tend to use software that is either minimalistic or started in another era (Emacs + command line tools). The one exception is the web browser which has to be modern or a bunch of websites won't work.