Comment by Kiro
1 day ago
Which the majority of people think is a horrible experience. There's even a sibling comment in this thread pointing that out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518721
1 day ago
Which the majority of people think is a horrible experience. There's even a sibling comment in this thread pointing that out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518721
Unless you can back that up, "Majority" is something you're making up. It's a guess.
It also doesn't matter whether it's true if the majority or not- "Instant transitions are only good in theory" is not a true statement. Instant transitions are good in practice for many people and that has been true for decades.
I see Kiro's guess and raise you an anecdote. I just turned animations off on my Android device, and instantly it feels faster and more responsive.
Maybe software programs got faster with our faster CPUs but all the animations just made everything feel slow.
Yes! It feels faster and more responsive now because it is faster and more responsive now. Your device is taking less time to do the same work.
Most people with that opinion keep using apps and devices with animations, but thinking it would be better without them. Very few actually torture themselves like that in practice.
I thought I had disabled animations on android, but it looks like I have it set for half duration.
Probably because I had run into some apps with bugs when animations are disabled, and making them run twice as fast as normal is more compatible and reduce the annoyance enough that I forget its enabled. Apps that animate at normal speed in defiance of my settings get deleted.
But I also set windows not to show window content while moving or resizing, because I find that to be annoying too.
Reducing duration or eliminating animation is one of the first settings I do on a new install.
For me, animations are the torture, and I am most productive on machines that aren't artificially hobbled with animations one can't turn off.
Your experiences are not universal.
Most people aren't even aware that it's possible to turn them off.
Most shoulder-surfers who see my phone ask me how everything's so fast, and get me to show them the settings. Being able to disable the extremely-excessive animations many things have nowadays is fantastic, and is a great reminder that hardware actually has made progress in the past two decades.
(I use accessibility -> reduce motion, personally. less flaky than the dev options, though also less reliable)
Finally someone not roleplaying. You're the first person who acknowledges the flakiness of the dev options. People are self-reporting when they claim they set it to 0x without realizing it's unusable due to the bugs.
Denigrating others as "roleplaying" is unnecessary and not serious.
AOSP is not the only operating system that allows you to disable animations, even if its implementation is not the best. And yes, I still use 0x on my Android, because it's still that much better than having animations enabled.
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Perhaps you should note the replies to that sibling comment
Setting animations to 0x is famously broken on Android with the UI jumping up and down on transitions. It's a litmus test to spot people falsely claiming they have it disabled without realizing it outs them.
You continue making unsubstantiated claims with loaded terms, denigrating others by accusing them of being dishonest when just stating their preferences.
It's not a litmus test, you are simply wrong in the way you dismiss other people.
Some of us like it at 0x, even when some apps are janky. Further, plenty of us here use desktop operating systems. Android is not the only way to get on the internet.
Both Windows (at least as of 10 and before) and most Linux distros allow you to disable animations too, and it works fine. Desktop operating systems ~15+ years ago lacked these animations entirely.