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That doesen't seem like some fundamental restriction, but rather a compromise we're always willing to make. 30ms is not noticeable, so we don't try to lower it and sacrifice something else.

Even the super slow ones like on kindle, are _choices_ that have been made in favor of something else. a second to turn a page on a book isn't unbearable

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30ms latency is acceptable. But that's the best we ever had.

High-end Android phones have 120+ ms latecy. That's easily noticeable and actually annoying (at least to me).

My personal pet peeve is the latency of input when i'm starting new applications in KDE. E.g. I'll start a new terminal with Super+Enter, followed by a Super+Right Arrow in order to tile it to the right. But the latency is big enough, that often it's not the terminal that ends up tiled, but the application that had focus earlier, e.g. a web browser. It's really annoying.

I also don't understand how still in 2020 when I move a window with the mouse, the window can't keep up with the mouse.

30ms input lag is what we should work towards. But that's not what we have today. Today is actually crap.

It’s so frustrating that our phones and computers can’t move at the speed our mind moves. I know it could if someone cared to try to make it a priority.

I think that if you had a top-to-bottom approach to a Linux distro designed entirely for latency of user interaction, you'd get something that would keep up with you.

I keep meaning to try out WindowMaker again as my Fedora window manager. I feel like it would be incredibly speedy on today's hardware.

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