And analytics. And offloading as much computation to the client, because servers are expensive and inefficiency is not an issue if your users are the ones paying for it.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the secret sauce, called unnecessary frameworks and user analytics modules.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

With that in mind, I LOVE how lean and fast some FOSS apps/projects are. One of my motivations to go searching for FOSS alternatives is when something seems slow for no reason.

It's not always the case, but it's often the case

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 8 months ago

KDE Plasma has been getting so much more efficient with every release that you can almost recommend it for low-end systems.