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I find Windows to be more and more hostile towards development these days. Windows 10 may have a very impressive kernel but the UI (aka Explorer) is a nightmare
by davidhyde 8y ago
I find Windows to be more and more hostile towards development these days. Windows 10 may have a very impressive kernel but the UI (aka Explorer) is a nightmare of "simplified" screens. Something like UI spaghetti.
Windows search and windows defender constantly spin your laptop cpu fan to max speeds because, you know, nobody minds a noisy laptop that they are not actively using.
Windows updates are constant, slow, often fail altogether and completely out of your control. Your machine may reboot at any time so good luck with that long running task. It's like they shipped a swimming pool that was actually a sieve and they are madly patching it every day.
Windows doesn’t respect the users desire to put the laptop to "Sleep". It will wake up at any time and often just stay awake and drain the battery.
Windows has also become some sort of hybrid advertising and tracking device which you can, admittedly, disable although some things like the search listening service Cortana really does not like being disabled.
Not everything is doom and gloom however. The virtual machine engine HyperV is extremely fast and easy to manage making things like Android development is a pleasure. Visual studio keeps getting better too.