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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by naasking on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:46PM (#18636408)
> compared to today's bloated apps that have difficulty keeping up with keystrokes on 8-core 3.5 GHz monsters

Seriously, I recently had to disable Thunderbird's spellchecking so that typing emails wouldn't stall for 5+ seconds at a time on my 8-core machine. Ironically, my older dual core machine has no such problems, and the same email accounts, OS and extensions are at play.

Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mixmastamyk on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:24PM (#18636631)
Something is wrong, see my other replies for potential fixes.