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by mikaelsouza
2111 days ago
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I feel like most people here don't like Windows 10, but for those who like it or even don't care about their OS, WSL2 works pretty nicely for many applications. While using Linux on my desktop computer, I had issues with font rendering, low fps animations and firefox/chrome stuttering while scrolling through pages. I understand there are probably some (hidden) fixes for these issues, but after countless times trying to solve these, I just gave up. One of the main issues people complain about Windows 10 is about mandatory updates. I know every circumstance is different, but for me, it's working well and I have no issues with it. I guess if you're someone who is having issues on your current OS but needs to work using UNIX tools, you should give Win10/WSL a chance. |
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> I had issues with font rendering, low fps animations and firefox/chrome stuttering while scrolling through pages.
I had some of these problems when I first setup my Manjaro/XFCE workstations which are 2 desktops and 1 laptop. However, they needed to be solved exactly once, by toggling some settings, and they were gone forever.
Meanwhile on Windows I have problems that I've never solved, like how I'll be playing Rocket League and all of a sudden the num-lock on my keyboard will suddenly turn off and my keyboard commands won't work until I turn it back on. In the past, when I've stopped playing to look, I saw that Windows 10 was basically doing updates smack in the middle of my "active hours" while I'm playing a game.
When I was using Windows 10 to do all of my work (mostly with Node.js, some Python, some Go, some C#), I couldn't use Docker and VirtualBox at the same time because Hyper-V is required by Docker and also by WSL. Aside from that, I had a plethora of smaller issues. Things like Node scripts containing ampersands only working in CMD.EXE and not PowerShell. Or, like some NPM packages just not working on Windows at all. Perhaps my biggest frustration for years was how long Yarn or NPM would take to install packages on Windows, even after I spent hours researching what settings to change in Windows to make it better.
I'm so happy I switched away from Windows for work because now I have none of these problems. I'm the type of guy who likes to keep things very simple. Why mix all of the problems of Windows with all of the problems from Linux when I can more easily conquer them separately? I'm also a minimalist and XFCE does a minimalist Windows-like environment way, way better and more conveniently than Windows 10 ever could. XFCE also contains features that I like from 7+ taskbar tweaker right out of the box, like being able to middle-click taskbar items to close the window.
Even doing C#/.NET Core on Linux is smoother IMO. The only thing I really miss from Windows is SSMS, but only when I'm working with SQL Server which is happening less and less these days. Azure Data Studio is catching up though and may eventually surpass SSMS.
Anyway, I also have a couple of Macs and I can complain for hours in detail about all of the operating systems that I use. Here's one now: Every Linux desktop (been trying them for 15 years before I finally switched) has confused the sort order icons. They use a down pointing arrow for sorting letters from a-Z, which is wrong for a left-to-right language. That is one issue I have not been able to fix myself because it's a very old decision that is baked into lots of different Linux software.