@Humpleupagus @MK2boogaloo @Zerglingman @sysrq

> Why would you need to be efficient when you can just throw more and faster cores, memory, and storage into the mix without incurring a huge overhead and while staying competitive in the consumer markets?

Yeah, there's almost no downward pressure on bloat.

> I find it both sad and humorous that I used to run Microsoft office on a 66mhz dx2. 30 years later, and though the speed, resolution, and print quality has improved, the ultimate end of the product remains the same.

It's actually gotten worse: speed is up, but latency is way up. (Try booting a FreeDOS ISO with a PS/2 keyboard plugged in if you don't believe me.)

But I know what you mean. I've spent a lot of time computing with these little ARM boards, and until you try to run a browser on them, you can't actually tell: all the usual computing tasks happen and they all work fine. On a single-core one, sometimes you notice some jittering when something hefty is starting up, but other than that, a lot of the software I use was fast enough to use in the 90s (or the 80s, even). Sitting down at a regular computer full of bloatware is painful.