[Python-Dev] On the dangers of giving developers the best resources

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On 08/10/2013 23:21, Tim Delaney wrote:
> On 9 October 2013 09:10, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org
> <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
>
>     It's not actually so much the extreme waste that I'm looking to
>     expose, but rather the day-to-day annoyances of stuff you use
>     regularly that slows you down by just a second (or ten), or things
>     that gets slower at each release.
>
>
> Veering off-topic (but still related) ...
>
> There's a reason I turn off all animations when I set up a machine for
> someone ... I've found turning off the animations is the quickest way to
> make a machine feel faster - even better than adding an SSD. The number
> of times I've fixed a "slow" machine by this one change ...
>
> I think everyone even remotely involved in the existence of animations
> in the OS should be forced to have the slowest animations turned on at
> all times, no matter the platform (OSX, Windows, Linux ...). Which comes
> back to the idea of developers having slow machines so they feel the
> pain ...
>
I remember one time when I was using a Mac. Although it was faster than
another machine I was using, the GUI felt sluggish because instead of
windows just appearing and disappearing they expanded and contracted,
which, of course, took time; not much time, true, but enough to become
annoying.