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Why did screensavers ever do anything besides just blanking the screen?
I guess a screensaver is only useful if the screen startup is slow.
Often Users would press the power button, when the screen was blank, even if the PC was on. Boot time was longer than two minutes and the filesystems generally didn't have journaling and were prone to corruption, when rebooted that way.
It's taxing on CPU and GPU: normal | running screensaver in browser CPU: 5% | 15% GPU: 10% | 45%
Why did screensavers ever do anything besides just blanking the screen?
In the era of beige crt monitors and not caring about electricity consumption it was all the rage to personalise your screensaver. A lot of people used them to display personal pics of their animals, family, cars etc. in place of putting physical pics on the desk. In a corporate environment with uniforms people did what they could to add some flare :-)
"it might stand to dethrone the venerable Flurry screensaver" - You are absolutely right. The first time I saw the screensaver, I was completely mesmerized and watched it for a few minutes before getting back to work. Out of curiosity, why Rust? Not saying anything against it, just looking to understand your take on it.
Why did screensavers ever do anything besides just blanking the screen?
I want the original text-mode (or, perhaps even better, imitated text mode over the full-resolution graphics mode) starry night sky from the Norton Commander :-)