My wife has asked me not to turn the house into a tech junkyard.

  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Your theory is based on the assumption that only Windows/Microsoft software increases in bloat exponentially.

    This is not true: look at the internet. For example Gmail used to have a basic HTML version, but Google killed it, and the normal version takes longer and longer to load even on new hardware. New Reddit also is a mess of over-Javascript-frameworked capitalistry, complete with those annoying grey lines that appear where text should be when the page is loading.

    Even open-source software is not immune to this. KDE on an Intel Celeron/2GB RAM computer feels very slightly sluggish, like walking through an atmosphere that’s too thick.

    Wirth’s Law states that as more features are added to a piece of software, it will become slower.