> In fact there's an entire class of applications that are extremely snappy and keyboard driven, by their very nature: games.
The only real difference in consideration is load-time. Gamers seem to be more patient than what I am with app load times.
The only real difference in consideration is load-time. Gamers seem to be more patient than what I am with app load times.
Compare with a mobile game, even a 3D one, where sessions are usually in the tens of minutes themselves, a lot more effort is spent optimising load times and it can be a competitive advantage.
[1]: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
Games tend to take a lot of time to start up because they need to preload heavyweight data, such as textures, models, maps, sounds, video. You don't need any of that in a desktop application.