When you're on a really high-end machine and using gmail is so slow that it gets your letters out of order when typing them into a search field, something is SERIOUSLY FLARGING BROKEN with the modern web.
@RL_Dane And please, let's also get rid of all of those Electron applications that totally bloat a computer with the equivalent of multiple, discreed (Chrome/Chromium) web browser instances.
@RL_Dane Would be even worse on the computer I'm on this week, given I can't use more than Links2 (terminal only, no images) and GMail doesn't like Mutt anymore...
@benjaminhollon@RL_Dane I'm not philosophically opposed, but for practical reasons I've needed to recompile everything to use the right dependencies that I have available and to make the software as small as possible - I don't have much of the 128MB free when everything I need is running...
@RL_Dane yeah, Chrome and Gmail are pretty bad. I'm on a mid-tier last-gen laptop and a lot of web stuff I do runs pretty well-- this tends to be mostly Mastodon, Calckey (which does run kinda slow), Fastmail, news sites I get linked to, references (icons and colors are both open right now, actually) and various management tasks like DNS/VPS control panels. This is done with a pretty good Internet connection, on Firefox on Linux with uBlock Origin installed.
@RL_Dane that being said, I usually prefer native, although native on Linux doesn't mean all that much for the stuff I do on web, like Mastodon or Wikipedia, which obviously run much better on a browser, although I have apps for both.
Once you get addicted to the power of never having to touch the mouse, and being able to manipulate text at crazy speeds (thanks to .vi.), you learn to love living in the terminal ;)
@RL_Dane I'm quite able to do things in vim/etc (my preference is Neovim) but I've tried to switch to it as my regular solution multiple times and I can never seem to do it.
@RL_Dane I really have no idea. It ends up super uncomfortable and I spend way too long trying to configure it instead of just using it, and no matter what I do it's never satisfactory, and I end up trying to make it replicate VS Code anyway.
Not to mention, the "canonical"/fast way to navigate in Vi/etc doesn't make sense to me (hjkl, with numbers, that sort). I suppose I work visually, and not working visually doesn't seem to click.
Gmail may be more fluid on Chrome, as that's GOOG's bread and butter, but I don't feel like feeding the Blink hegemony, so I avoid it as much as possible.
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