schoolslave
[H]ard|Gawd
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Yes, bloat is subjective but hey, whatever dude, it is what it is. Oh, and the software I run is faster and more responsive that it was 15 years ago but hey, to each their own.
Edit: Or more specifically, you throw around the word bloat at everything so, it really has lost it's meaning.
No, I use it where appropriate - in this instance applied to software since _shock_ I actually develop/optimize (FL)OSS including the Linux kernel. Modern software is drunk on "faster hardware every year so who cares about performance/optimization". Programs did more with less in the past. Nowadays we are doing less with more (hw) - instead of using the tremendous capabilities of a modern CPU for actual cool/useful features we get ads embedded in the terminal in Ubuntu and one electron "app" consuming more RAM itself than several WinXP machines combined. BLOAT.
Edit 2: Oh, and it is not being enamored, it is simply rejecting BS out of hand.
You are enamored with whatever OS you use - I remember you shilling Windows 10 pretty hard in the past.
They must have used machines and devices to determine this then, because there is no way the human eye is going to notice the difference. In fact, I recall that back in the day, text based OSes where quite slow on older hardware but then again, that is what upgrading is all about.
Read the blog posts I linked. The only specialized tool needed is a wallclock.
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