Just in case you have this problem with other software: it's probably an XDG desktop portal issue, I haven't used Sway specifically for a while but it took me a lot of trial and error to wrangle my portals into submission without using Plasma.
I suspect companies behind needlessly memory-intensive software would rather push (harder) towards cloud services, or ignore the problem entirely - I'm sure they'll find a way to enshittify their products in a way that solves the problem for them, or see lower profits and learn absolutely nothing.If the software in question is something people need for their job, those companies can absolutely just decide that it's not their problem and that you'll just have to face the shortage head-on.
I recall listening to half of a video from SumitoMedia, where his answer to your question is, quote, "do you hear how fucking stupid you sound?" (you can probably guess why I didn't watch the rest of it).
If you were a tankie you'd open your comment with a 7 paragraph on why you're not a tankie, followed by a dissertation that would make a HD2 autocannon proud by deflecting so much
It sure would be nice if we had a word for problematic behaviors, most often psychological, having to do with hedonistic over-indulgence at the expense of one's health, and usually addressed with therapy...
Without rigorously researching the phenomenon, I'd put myself in the 2, edging towards 3 - I can visualize things with however many details I can see with my own eyes if I focus a little, but instinctually I only see vague shapes that serve their purpose in whatever scenario I'm thinking of.I can rotate objects and remember the back-face details;I can picture a moment from a story I was reading, where a bipedal nocturnal lizard in a cramped spaceship violently recoils from having a flashlight pointed at its eyes;I cannot quantify the spacing between its eyes compared to the height between those and the tip of the nose as seen by a front-facing isometric projection, even if it's all a fiction and I could just make things up.
Basically my mind is running Unreal Engine 5 with medium settings, low LOD and AI generated textures - which would also explains a lot of other things now that I think about it.
I'm not as puzzled about the concept of aphantasia (or the opposite) as much as the fact that people here, and two I know IRL, always self report as either 1s or 5s, with a handful of exceptions (ATTOW).
Is there a selection bias, where anyone in-between doesn't relate to either extreme enough to comment, or do said extremes conflate the ability to "picture" fine details with the ability to remember them in the first place?
On paper, a Linux version of a game would perform slightly better, because they wouldn't have to use Windows system calls for synchronization and disk I/O.
This seems to be true for the games in my Steam library that have good Linux versions, though I can't comment on the performance of bad ones because obviously I play those through Proton.
I guess the part of Italy I live in stop signs are best described by your second paragraph, but they're pretty frequent. These roads get wild sometimes.
