I'm forced to use the Microsoft ecosystem at work and the sluggishness of it is a major source of procrastination. I find myself putting off small tasks forever, because waiting for word files to open, browsing folder structures in Teams, etc. are all mildly painful experiences. I suspect a lot of people do this, and maybe all of them don't even realize why they are doing this. The effect of sluggish user interfaces on overall productivity is probably well underestimated.
The same goes to some extent to anything with a web interface, for example Databricks.
> at work
A lot of performance issues are down to MDM software.
I wrote this, I find it spectacularly hilarious. It is a desktop text editor in a self contained html file. (50 lines)
https://text-edit.go-here.nl
You put it on your desktop and (assuming you have a browser running) instantly brings up a text editor that can only load and save.
If you feel you need some feature you edit the html file and add the code yourself. (Preferably using text-edit)
Unlimited capabilities:)