I already see the electron apps coming!
Logitech’s mouse and keyboard apps are garbage. LogiTune, Logi Options+. OSS alternative Mac Mouse Fix does everything needed and doesn’t need to run in the background constantly.
Reddit
And every time you click on a post, then go back it reload.
I like to read 1-2 top comments for most posts, but this 2 second white screen for each post kill it for me. This is why I used boost for reddit, and now for lemmy.
Microsoft teams and discord. Both use react native.
Postman, not just loading is slow, everything is slow.
You can try https://hoppscotch.io, it an open-source alternative for Postman.
That and you have to have an account just to use it. I shouldn’t have to sign in to a 3rd party to test on localhost
I uninstalled it when they started forcing logins. It’s basically a glorified curl anyway.
Discord and Snapchat for Android. Both are laggy as fuck, and Discord can’t seem to fix their app’s many bugs.
Snapchat has always run great on Pixel. Google has worked with them many times to implement new features, though.
Like the Pixel visual core back in the day, the double tap the back to launch feature, etc.
Can’t really comment on other Android phones.
Another vote for shitty Discord from me. If there was any app I could just magically give a speed boost to, it’s that.
Some days it annoys me enough where I just run it through Firefox/Web, especially on Linux where it’s really janky.
You want a magic Discord speedboost? It’s called OpenAsar. Mitigates telemetry, and speeds the client up to usable levels, especially on lower end hardware.
Oh this looks great, thank you for the shout!
In a similar vein to deadcade’s comment, Ripcord also exists also an alternative. If this exchange had happened a few months ago I would’ve recommended it above anything - but unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in a very long time at this point and it’s starting to cause some core functionality to not work.
EDIT: It’s pretty much exclusively the Slack functionality that doesn’t work anymore. The Discord side is great and is IMO has a much more useful UI, ex: you can group arbitrary channels from any number of servers into a single group which is presented in the UI pretty much as a new server. No more server hopping to check out all of your favorite channels!
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Any Microsoft app.
Biggest offenders: MS teams on desktop. And even more so Epic Games store. Just ridiculously slow and laggy even on strong (Ryzen 9 5900HX, 32GB RAM, NVMe gen3 SSD) hardware. They almost take more time to open than Windows 11 (which is also slower thsn it should be). Buggy too.
Software that got much slower with a recent update:
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Steam. Seriously, it takes almost as much time to open ever since the last UI change as the Epic Games Store. At least it’s smooth once it’s opened, but I seriously want an alternative to launch my steam games.
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Firefox, specifically to open PDFs. There’s now a 5-second delay when opening any PDF, even a tiny one. It’s really frustrating honestly. It takes 90% of the time to open a 1 page PDF than to open a 10 page PDF.
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Windows file explorer. On battery on my gaming laptop, there’s a 1-2 second delay when I click anything on this app. Constantly seeing “working on it”. The Windows 10 file explorer was much faster. And the search is atrocious, use Everything by VoidTools instead.
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Some third party map apps on my Android phone used for public transportation start becoming really unresponsive after 10 seconds. It freezes my entire phone. This did not happen a couple months ago, and it really would’ve made getting around the city much harder if it wasn’t for the motorcycle I recently bought.
Windows file explorer. On battery on my gaming laptop, there’s a 1-2 second delay when I click anything on this app. Constantly seeing “working on it”. The Windows 10 file explorer was much faster.
Lmao I was really confused until that windows 10 comment. Because I was really confused what kind of mess your system was if the file Explorer lagged even though it doesn’t on some of the shittiest computers I own. I’ve so far refused to upgrade any of my systems to windows 11, and probably won’t until 10 gets a true EOL
Oops I should’ve told you that it is the Windows 11 version. That version is like 10-20% of the speed of the Windows 10 version but it has tabs
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Discord. It takes like 12 seconds to start each time I launch it. Of course it’s plenty fast after that, so I guess it’s just the startup time that’s slow.
