It's more aout getting rid of what slows you down (bloatware/fat distros) than it is about linux (the kernel) itself.
Who else finds that animations/smooth scrolling just breaks the flow/gets in the way?
Who else finds that animations/smooth scrolling just breaks the flow/gets in the way?
- Smooth scrolling that's actually smooth and fast gives you immediate feedback on where the last line you were reading is. There's no guesswork in "how much did that page jump down exactly" anymore.
- Smooth scrolling which is laggy and bouncy doesn't remove the confusion and may add to it instead.
For animation example:
- A quick (even 3-frame) animation for minimising a window doesn't delay you, but gives you information: where is your window now on the taskbar, and the action indeed happened (if you have 2 similar documents opened and the window just disappears, it may not be clear)
- A slow, fancy animation that rolls up your window just introduces delay and distracts from the task, even if it provides the benefits above.
Finally, useless animation, especially connected to the accelerometer, can induce motion sickness, so sometimes it's worth making it less smooth/much faster. We can still register 2-3 frame blinks as something specific happening.
As usual, there's a lot of grey area in between having animation, or not.
It improves ux by hiding the latency behind visual transformations.