The jerkiness and stuttering has always been a PC/DOS/Windows issue. Not a computeriness issue, unless you only have computer experience
It was in the 80's that PCs couldn't even scroll a line of text without making odd stops at times, it was in the 90's when I was surprised to still keep seeing the phenomenon, and it's these days that I can still see a modern Windows screensaver stutter for no reason. Or just some mouse click taking a few seconds "to deliver".
The reason I (and so many other people) so adored the Amiga still late in the 90's is that anything like that was completely unheard of. The computer was just so snappy. Everything happened pretty much immediately. I remember that around 1995 or so there was a web page that had 256 GIF animations playing on it simultaneously. My bare Amiga could run them all smoothly despite me even doing something else in another window. My friend's Pentium pretty much choked on the very same page.
Linux desktop is nothing compared to Amiga. BeOS was close but died as well. I want a completely 100% responsive, stutter-free multitasking desktop/ipad/phone because I know it's possible. I don't want to settle for too slow latency or live with the false claim that to be snappy you can only run one application at a time.
It was in the 80's that PCs couldn't even scroll a line of text without making odd stops at times, it was in the 90's when I was surprised to still keep seeing the phenomenon, and it's these days that I can still see a modern Windows screensaver stutter for no reason. Or just some mouse click taking a few seconds "to deliver".
The reason I (and so many other people) so adored the Amiga still late in the 90's is that anything like that was completely unheard of. The computer was just so snappy. Everything happened pretty much immediately. I remember that around 1995 or so there was a web page that had 256 GIF animations playing on it simultaneously. My bare Amiga could run them all smoothly despite me even doing something else in another window. My friend's Pentium pretty much choked on the very same page.
Linux desktop is nothing compared to Amiga. BeOS was close but died as well. I want a completely 100% responsive, stutter-free multitasking desktop/ipad/phone because I know it's possible. I don't want to settle for too slow latency or live with the false claim that to be snappy you can only run one application at a time.