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A recent blog post in the Apple fanboy world posited that Apple has slow, non-user-adjustable animations that make the OS feel slow. That's basically why a user thinks KDE or Gnome is snappier. It has nothing to do with CPU architecture.

I still have an Intel Mac and it doesn't feel significantly slower than one with Apple silicon.




> KDE or Gnome is snappier.

Last time I installed Gnome I had to install an extension to remove the 150ms delay on alt-tabbing that is present even when animations are disabled. It became snappy after that.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2741/remove-alttab-de...

As for KDE I did not find how to disable animations when using Wayland. I would be happy to know (while keeping Wayland).

(I still prefer using customizable OSS software over "we know better than you" closed source software)




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