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Your computer is not as fast as the computers of the people who disagree with you.

Not necessarily. Once you are used to your editor opening in a few milliseconds, everything else feels like ages. I would argue the opposite: we have gotten used to slow software being the norm.

Geany does in fact open in milliseconds. By visual comparison, I can't measure a difference in startup speed compared to sublime text.

edit: I've tried Geany again and it's way faster than what I remember.

Cudos to trying again. Sometimes our memories fail us.

Was it of sufficient speed for your needs? It certainly takes longer to open than a couple of milliseconds. But I'm not aware of any GUI application that does.

Not that I would actually notice anyhow, given display latency of ~16ms at 60 Hz anyways :D

Actually I think within a second is fine. Either my memory is failing me or it has been optimised. Probably the former.

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