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This is strange. I run a 6 year old PC with win 10 on it. It has 4GB of RAM. I use an SSD and an M.2 drive. The thing is snappy as hell. I face zero lags, jitters, or switching delays at all. I get the feeling that writing things to disk is causing delays.

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I had a friend telling me "check out my new computer it's so snappy!" once and the darn thing was so slow it made my hands shake from the stress. Can't believe anyone on the internet telling they don't have any lag.

Every time we get snappier hardware, we just add more software bloat. I pretty much run two kinds of GUI apps (on Linux with a lightweight, tiling window manager): web browsers and terminals. My terminal apps are always very snappy, the web browsers not so much. I'm of the opinion that the computer should wait for me, not the other way around. Doesn't seem to work out that way with "modern UIs".

I run a 6 core desktop with 32G, and 1TB M2 SSD, and after an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 last Christmas, input lag in mintty terminals was dramatically worse. Even just holding down a key and observing the stream of characters at 15 per second or whatever my repeat rate is, it glitches and stutters.

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