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With the latest updates to Windows 10, Win has been working stable lately. The things I hate are: - The anti malware service executable eating a lot of CPU -

With the latest updates to Windows 10, Win has been working stable lately. The things I hate are: - The anti malware service executable eating a lot of CPU - Terrible, terrible terminal emulation even with the improved powershell window - The crazy amount of committed memory. Even if you have 16-32 gigs of RAM, the OS still writes pagefiles to disk. I used to hate that I couldn't customize the Desktop Environment to suit my needs. But with custom Autohotkey scripts it seems to me that sky is the limit. The windows subsystem for linux is buggy, nevertheless it is usable and helps a great deal. Most gnu software for example Gnuapl compile and work OTB. I've only witnessed one blue screen of death in the last month. I should also note that I'm using an 8th gen desktop machine I've built with minimal hardware. Even with Spectre/meltdown patches I didn't experience any trouble.

oblio 9y ago
You can set Windows Defender to not proactively scan.
krylon 9y ago
I only use Windows at work, where I also used to be the helpdesk guy. These days I spend most of my time programming, so I am somewhat out of the loop lately. BSOD-wise, Windows has been very stable for a very long time[1]. I am not a fan of Windows, but Windows crashing is a very rare event, and when it happens, in my experience the cause is either a) faulty hardware, b) buggy device drivers or c) crappy AV software mucking around in kernel space (over the last three years, almost all the Windows bluescreens I saw were due to crappy AV software). My work laptop has BSOD'd on me maybe once or twice in three years - and I am one of those people that rarely shutdown or reboot their systems. At the end of the (work) day, I put my laptop to sleep, and only reboot it when an update requires it or when it misbehaves very badly. So I am pushing the system pretty hard. I did not have much contact with Windows 10, yet, though. My work laptop runs Windows 7, and between Windows 2000 and 8.1, Windows 7 is the one I like best, so I am sticking with it for as long as I can. WSL sounds nice, though. And I heard Windows 10 finally got a native, builtin ssh client. > Even if you have 16-32 gigs of RAM, the OS still writes pagefiles to disk. This one has always struck me as odd about Windows. Linux or *BSD, given enough memory, will not swap at all until you push them. Windows seems to do it "proactively". I suppose it gets less annoying with an SSD, but my work laptop has a slow 5400rpm HDD. [1] I once saw a Windows NT 4.0 Server with six years of uptime. Personally, I shudder at the thought of a server that has not gotten any updates in years, but if that is not a concern, Windows is absolutely capable of accumulating that kind of uptime.

oblio 9y ago

You can set Windows Defender to not proactively scan.

krylon 9y ago

I only use Windows at work, where I also used to be the helpdesk guy. These days I spend most of my time programming, so I am somewhat out of the loop lately. BSOD-wise, Windows has been very stable for a very long time[1]. I am not a fan of Windows, but Windows crashing is a very rare event, and when it happens, in my experience the cause is either a) faulty hardware, b) buggy device drivers or c) crappy AV software mucking around in kernel space (over the last three years, almost all the Windows bluescreens I saw were due to crappy AV software). My work laptop has BSOD'd on me maybe once or twice in three years - and I am one of those people that rarely shutdown or reboot their systems. At the end of the (work) day, I put my laptop to sleep, and only reboot it when an update requires it or when it misbehaves very badly. So I am pushing the system pretty hard. I did not have much contact with Windows 10, yet, though. My work laptop runs Windows 7, and between Windows 2000 and 8.1, Windows 7 is the one I like best, so I am sticking with it for as long as I can. WSL sounds nice, though. And I heard Windows 10 finally got a native, builtin ssh client. > Even if you have 16-32 gigs of RAM, the OS still writes pagefiles to disk. This one has always struck me as odd about Windows. Linux or *BSD, given enough memory, will not swap at all until you push them. Windows seems to do it "proactively". I suppose it gets less annoying with an SSD, but my work laptop has a slow 5400rpm HDD. [1] I once saw a Windows NT 4.0 Server with six years of uptime. Personally, I shudder at the thought of a server that has not gotten any updates in years, but if that is not a concern, Windows is absolutely capable of accumulating that kind of uptime.