Modern machines are so insanely fast, the UI should almost react before you do an action.
My 5900X machine with relatively slow RAM running CachyOS actually almost feels as instant as DOS machines with incredible low latency.
Instead, we get tons of layers of abstraction (Electron etc), combined with endpoint security software in the enterprise world that bring any machine to its knees by inspecting every I/O action.
Zed is an awesome editor where every interaction is just “snappy”.
I feel all the animations and transitions have been introduced to macOS just to paper over slowness. I’ve disabled them via the accessibility settings which helps in perceived snappiness a bit, but it also makes yank visible where performance is not up to par.
Even when I have disabled everything on macOS it is still no where near the speed on CachyOS / Arch. I have been complaining about latency for more than 15 years and macOS are still no where as fast. Not to mention my original post was downvoted suggesting people disagree.
I think that is primarily due to the difference in assigned semantics of fast/speed.
Yes macOS on Apple hardware is crazy fast in terms of io and throughput. And the cpu is amazing, and it’s unified memory model allows for great things with LLM. But, the keypress to screen is still laggy. Especially compared to CachyOS.
My 5900X machine with relatively slow RAM running CachyOS actually almost feels as instant as DOS machines with incredible low latency.
Instead, we get tons of layers of abstraction (Electron etc), combined with endpoint security software in the enterprise world that bring any machine to its knees by inspecting every I/O action.
Zed is an awesome editor where every interaction is just “snappy”.
I feel all the animations and transitions have been introduced to macOS just to paper over slowness. I’ve disabled them via the accessibility settings which helps in perceived snappiness a bit, but it also makes yank visible where performance is not up to par.