I already see the electron apps coming!
On the desktop side, definitely Microsoft Teams. It’s insanely sluggish, even just going into a chat takes half a second or even a whole second and noticable time to load the UI. On a device that’s completely overspecced for something like a chat app.
On the mobile side, Discord. It’s quite alright on Desktop or in a Browser, but wow is the Android app bad. It’s soooo sluggish, and half the time forgets what it wanted to load because it takes too long.
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.
As for steam, have you tried GOG Galaxy at all? I use it as my main launcher and I love it.
I’ve heard of it but never actually used it. Is it much faster than Steam?
I think so but you do need to set it up with your steam account and connect all that which is a bit of set up. Once you have it up though you can connect all of your launchers to it and then just have everything in one spot. I use it mostly for my GOG, Steam and Game Pass games.
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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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The Walmart app and the website itself are absolutely horrendous. You’d think I was using a Windows 98 PC and a dialup modem every time I try to use it I swear. No idea how it’s so shit and I don’t think I’ve ever used a less optimized website in my life beyond overloaded Lemmy instances.
Just use a browser. Amazon app is the only one that can arguably be justified. Even then, I know im trading my soul. Fight me, guys
What does the Amazon App have that the website doesn’t? I’ve just been using the website, now I’m wondering what I’m missing out on
The browser version for Walmart is honestly probably even worse than the app. I don’t know how they made a website so terrible.
Discord and Snapchat for Android. Both are laggy as fuck, and Discord can’t seem to fix their app’s many bugs.
Apple Podcasts app on any platform. If you subscribe to like more than few dozen podcasts it runs at a snail’s pace even on the latest M1 and M2 devices from my experience. I turned off automatic downloads and it still ran slow. I don’t know why because a podcast app should be little different than an rss reader in theory, no?
Anyway I switched to Overcast last year and haven’t looked back.
YNAB
Always takes like 20 seconds to load a super simple web app
The Amazon Alexa app for android is really slow and clunky for me. Especially irritating when you just want to turn things on or off or access a device quickly.
Mcdonalds app.
Bunnings app!
Aussie will know what I’m talking about, the splash screen is too fucking long, when it finally opens, it’s fucking blank while the items load and you can’t search until it loads and when you return from a search to the main screen, it fucking loads again!
Okay end rant!
There’s probably always a reason for an app to be slow. Even if the developer intentionally made it slow on purpose to fuck with people, that’s still a reason. 😂
