It’s your 40 Series GPU dropping frames on DWM (the window manager).

Yeah and with Apple, it feels like we buy a license to use their hardware.

A lot of apps you launch do become child processes of explorer.exe. If explorer crashes they might misbehave or become zombie process in Unix terms. It depends on the app though. e.g. Firefox and Edge don’t but Chrome does.

That’s why I run explorer in multi-process mode. Folder windows cannot crash the shell process.

Would you recommend running another Fediverse microblogging software like Pleroma or Calckey? They can use/interact with all Mastodon features just fine. The issues you found…were they Mastodon-specific or Fediverse/ActivityPub in general?

Similar to maximize but it tries to expand the window only enough to show all the content without needing to scroll.

Although the functionality is still abysmal, you can also double click the title/header bar to zoom.