I don't want to go off topic here, but that was my whole point then: those small differences DO matter, because they add up to other "small differences" in other similarly (read poorly) designed skins or even software (luckily, Rainmeter is very well designed in terms of performance, bar some unavoidable things mainly related to a fast update rate). Having the computing power to afford higher resource usage should never be an excuse to design stuff (skins, in this case) that handle this poorly. Just because it's tolerable on an individual level, it doesn't mean that bad practices in this area should become the norm. When I see such a skin or software, I instantly think of [insert software product taking dozens of GB and running like a turtle because of higher resolution images or other such bloatware] and the throw up instinct kicks in.balala wrote: ↑October 18th, 2021, 7:23 pm As you see now, these days those small differences have started not to matter too much. Even if many are still using older / slower computers, more and more people are switching to new and much better systems. As this happens, the differences become to matter less and less.
And don't apologize. Those discussions are always welcomed. They (may) reveal some hidden mistakes, inadvertences, issues (and so on).
Sadly, there are lots of such examples nowadays on the market and people get charmed by the "modern" look and feel, and this is detrimental because you'll never get to run things as fast as they "could" run since having better devices is largely canceled by having more resource hungry programs. Simple example, from a couple of days back: on my 8 GB RAM new machine, when (automatically, through scripting) building up the large image related to the animation in this thread for use in a Bitmap meter, the "modern" Photoshop 2019 couldn't get past frame 260 out of 360 because it ran out of memory, while the "oh, don't use it cause it's not modern" Photoshop CS6 looked like it could do another 360 frames after completing the 360 ones without any issues. Needless to say which version I instantly uninstalled after seeing that...