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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by OtherShrezzing on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:34AM (#43973431)
Spotify takes 7 seconds from clicking on its icon to playing a song on a 2024 top-of-the-range MacBook Pro. Navigating through albums saved on your computer can take several seconds. Double clicking on a song creates a 1/4sec pause.

This is absolutely remarkable inefficiency considering the application's core functionality (media players) was perfected a quarter century ago.

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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by everdrive on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:23PM (#43975390)
And on RhythmBox, on a 2017 laptop it works instantaneously. These big monetized apps were a huge mistake.
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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by thewebguyd on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:33PM (#43975488)
> These big monetized apps were a huge mistake.

It's electron. Electron was a mistake.

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