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>How have the added convenience features added to Windows 10 that do make it more accessible like a phone, equate to a reduction in your ability to work on it?
by drbawb 8y ago
>How have the added convenience features added to Windows 10 that do make it more accessible like a phone, equate to a reduction in your ability to work on it?
Because they've implemented those features in a managed runtime that is slow as molasses. I have 64 GiB of RAM, a high-end enthusiast CPU (Skylake-X), an NVMe drive, a high end GPU -- and the start menu lags, and sometimes loses keystrokes altogether. Search was completely broken for me between builds 1607 and 1709 (the start menu would not find recently installed apps, it would not find any files at all, etc.)
This completely disregard for performance and consistency infects every part of the operating system they "update." -- The new control panel's VPN applet frequently gets out of sync w/ the actual state of the tunnel, and the connect/disconnect controls stop working. There are many things you can't even do with the new control panel. There are many instances where you have to wait for the control panel to fail it's happy path (e.g: printer auto discovery) before it just gives up and presents you a link to the old printer adding wizard.
Then let's talk about their updater: I've already told you I have what I consider to be an enthusiast-class workstation, yet the last major update took over an hour to complete. What is it doing w/ nearly an hour when it has 50,000 IOPS and 300Mbit/s of WAN at its disposal? Any Linux distro I have ever used can basically finish an installation as fast as it can do IO, meanwhile the Windows updater doesn't even in-flight a second download while the previous package is installing, and then it proceeds to waste my time with three to four reboot cycles.
Then, after these updates are finally finished, they pull stunts like in the OP. When it did the Fall Creator's Update (1709?) it reset my default browser to Edge. (Nevermind that part of my job is web development, and I'm very particular about the suite of browsers I have installed & how I have them configured.) -- I've had Windows tell me I'm running out of RAM when I have >30% left. (That's _20 gigabytes of RAM._)
This is absolutely insane, I have lost so much productivity to this pile of trash. I have never regretted an OS purchase from Microsoft before, but I regret this purchase, and that is coming from someone who owned Windows Me and Vista.
- cptskippy 8y agoIt really sounds like you have a problem with your system affecting performance. I have encountered none of the issues you describe. I even have an Intel Celeron 2957U with 6GB of RAM and an integrated GPU doing CAM/GRBL related tasks over RDC that runs like a top. I also get the impression that you're primarily a Linux user who has to use Windows and is just latching on to any reason to complain about it. > Because they've implemented those features in a managed runtime that is slow as molasses. To my knowledge the Windows 10 UI is written using the C++ Runtime, not a managed one. The use of XAML is not an indicator of a managed language, UWP Apps can be written in C++. > There are many things you can't even do with the new control panel. Microsoft is gradually migrating features from the Control Panel over to the Settings App. As such the Control Panel still exists and is readily accessible. > There are many instances where you have to wait for the control panel to fail it's happy path (e.g: printer auto discovery) before it just gives up and presents you a link to the old printer adding wizard. And for most people the happy path works and is significantly easier to deal with. Not everyone is comfortable editing CUPS config files. > the last major update took over an hour to complete. How long does an distro-upgrade take you? Because that's the equivalent procedure. It really sounds like a problem with your system because the Spring Creators update too about 15 minutes on my systems. > meanwhile the Windows updater doesn't even in-flight a second download while the previous package is installing Windows 10 downloads all of the updates prior to attempting to install any of them so... what are you talking about? > I've had Windows tell me I'm running out of RAM when I have >30% left. Again, that sounds like you have something else going on and you're just blaming the thing you despise for all your woes.