[mrjin]

Maybe it's time to ditch Windows once and for all. Put spywares aside, the reliability is ridiculous.

Bought a surface pro for kids, and had to clean wipe Windows 11 less than a week as they pushed an update causing external display to flicker, uninstalling the update screwed up the whole system and the system restore did not work at all. So had to spend half a day just to install Windows 10.

For my own laptop, mostly looked okay until a couple of days ago except a couple different minor issues got fixed now and then. All of a sudden, Edge became unbearably slow. Simply create a new tab or switching to another one could take a minute despite the cpu usage was less than 10% and over 32GB free mem available. Tried everything such as switching off hardware acceleration etc., none worked. Then I noticed that the URL inspection related fuction which was for sure turned off was back on again. Turned those off those, it got much faster but still slower than it should be.

That's the last straw. Installed Fedora and it looks great by default. However, I still need to find some substitution for the stuffs I use on Windows. Once that's done, Windows 11 can go.

[gambiting]

I can only do my work on windows. Playstation/Xbox toolchains only work on windows, not to mention most of other video games development tools.

Besides, I honestly think Visual Studio(the full one, not Code) is the best IDE in existence for C++ programming, its tooling and usablity is second to none. Even if I wasn't developing video games I'd stick with windows just to use Visual Studio.

[mrjin]

Yep, I get that lots of software are Windows only. I was super happy with Visual Studio until recently a couple of years, basicly when JS component started to replace those native ones. It took only 80MB of memory when loaded a fairly big solution. But now, a few GB just to load a tiny solution. Lots of functions I don't give a f*k about were added recently, but for those small little things indentation while formatting code etc.. are no longer working as what they used to be. And you just reminded me another bug of Windows 10. So on Friday, I was debugging something and decided to stop as I found what was wrong. Debugging stopped but the process did not and wasn't shown at all in the taskmgr, had to kill it using command line so that I could build the new code. Nothing big but super annoying.

[petodo]

my work software is not supported by WINE and honestly after like 30 years with Windows I will rather butcher windows than deal with Linux, which I tried every few years and still found it unusable for me even besides that one software I need

[mrjin]

Everyone's mileage varies. I had exactly the same feeling until recent couple of year.

[joeman1000]

Which program do you need?