Maybe you dislike them, but that does not make for a fact.

Instant transitions are something I strongly prefer and use in practice. There's no question, I don't want my operating system slowing itself down to a factor (literally) of 1000x, pointlessly fading and jiggling and sliding and bouncing and wiggling. And, as this article points out, animations in operating systems often make a visually illegible mess in the meanwhile.

Animations might be a good idea in theory, but it doesn't seem like anyone has figured out how to do them right.

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cwillu 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Indeed: one of the first things I do on a new android phone is activate developer mode specifically so that I can set the animation timescale to 0×.

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Kiro 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Which the majority of people think is a horrible experience. There's even a sibling comment in this thread pointing that out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518721

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lynndotpy an hour ago | parent [-]

Unless you can back that up, "Majority" is something you're making up. It's a guess.

It also doesn't matter whether it's true if the majority or not- "Instant transitions are only good in theory" is not a true statement. Instant transitions are good in practice for many people and that has been true for decades.

	▲	Liftyee 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I see Kiro's guess and raise you an anecdote. I just turned animations off on my Android device, and instantly it feels faster and more responsive. Maybe software programs got faster with our faster CPUs but all the animations just made everything feel slow.
	▲	Kiro 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Most people with that opinion keep using apps and devices with animations, but thinking it would be better without them. Very few actually torture themselves like that in practice.