Comment by kccqzy
10 months ago
A recent blog post in the Apple fanboy world posited that Apple has slow, non-user-adjustable animations that make the OS feel slow. That's basically why a user thinks KDE or Gnome is snappier. It has nothing to do with CPU architecture.
I still have an Intel Mac and it doesn't feel significantly slower than one with Apple silicon.
> KDE or Gnome is snappier.
Last time I installed Gnome I had to install an extension to remove the 150ms delay on alt-tabbing that is present even when animations are disabled. It became snappy after that.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2741/remove-alttab-de...
As for KDE I did not find how to disable animations when using Wayland. I would be happy to know (while keeping Wayland).
(I still prefer using customizable OSS software over "we know better than you" closed source software)