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Chromium Vs. Gecko
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And Cromite is my example of how the problem with Chrome is not the rendering engine tech, but the motivations of pthe people driving it. Cromite is an excellent alternative to gecko.
Back when I was very young, my software development philosophy was build your software on an Amiga 3000 and test it on an Amiga 500. Why? So that you can make it as efficient as possible while building it on the most user-friendly tools.
I still don't understand why this is not a thing. Just because memory is cheap and CPUs are fairly cheap does not mean we should just go blindly using it all up so we can spend more money on the next more powerful set of CPUs and ram.
Memory is not cheap anymore, and won't be for quite a while.
Admittedly, I've not been in the market recently. It is, however, the counter argument most frequently used to ignore the advice I stated.
I was just entertaining the idea of getting a more current S76 Pangolin today, went to see how much it would cost me to get the most basic build and upgrade ram myself, and just bringing it up to 32gb of DDR5 was over $350.00. I guess I'm keeping my Gazelle a bit longer.
Completely agree. I find it especially inelegant that we still have such a thing as boot times to wait through, despite improvements by orders of magnitude in processing power and disk throughput. Android devices are a huge offender in this aspect, though I guess few people care since a full shutdown is rarely done.