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Yup. Definitely feels like "how much dev market share can we capture by just putting a nix inside our OS?" Make it performant enough to not even seem like a vm.

by kortex 6y ago

Yup. Definitely feels like "how much dev market share can we capture by just putting a nix inside our OS?" Make it performant enough to not even seem like a vm. Then get people to stay on the platform. I still find windows usage painful and sluggish compared to ubuntu and left in the dust by xubuntu so I'd rather have the reverse with a windows vm.

stjohnswarts 6y ago
Windows is not painful and sluggish compared to Linux GUIs. It's on par. If your GUI is sluggish it's because you're letting stuff like letting crappy antivirus and malware detection run in the background or you have an underpowered machine for what windows needs. Sure Xubuntu will trash Windows on an old P4 however on modern hardware they'll be fairly equivalent with windows having a slight edge due to better video acceleration. I use both daily and they're both responsive environments.
- eitland 6y ago
  > Windows is not painful and sluggish compared to Linux GUIs. It's on par. 30% longer compile times than on Linux on the same hardware. Using git takes time compared to being instantaneous. Running "hello world" written in .Net takes 3-5 seconds compared to <<1 second on Linux on the same hardware. > If your GUI is sluggish it's because you're letting stuff like letting crappy antivirus and malware detection run in the background or you have an underpowered machine for what windows needs. As I mentioned above, Linux is amazingly much faster on the same hardware! And brand new 2018/2019 hardware at that when I measured last time. That said antivirus is a real problem. Part of the problem is that mandatory Windows OS often signals sysadmins that doesn't care, so you often get tragically bad antivirus, possibly misconfigured at that.
  - fomine3 6y ago
    I/O on Windows is definitively slower point and it affects git performance but OP says about GUI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525

by kortex 6y ago

stjohnswarts 6y ago

Windows is not painful and sluggish compared to Linux GUIs. It's on par. If your GUI is sluggish it's because you're letting stuff like letting crappy antivirus and malware detection run in the background or you have an underpowered machine for what windows needs. Sure Xubuntu will trash Windows on an old P4 however on modern hardware they'll be fairly equivalent with windows having a slight edge due to better video acceleration. I use both daily and they're both responsive environments.

eitland 6y ago
> Windows is not painful and sluggish compared to Linux GUIs. It's on par. 30% longer compile times than on Linux on the same hardware. Using git takes time compared to being instantaneous. Running "hello world" written in .Net takes 3-5 seconds compared to <<1 second on Linux on the same hardware. > If your GUI is sluggish it's because you're letting stuff like letting crappy antivirus and malware detection run in the background or you have an underpowered machine for what windows needs. As I mentioned above, Linux is amazingly much faster on the same hardware! And brand new 2018/2019 hardware at that when I measured last time. That said antivirus is a real problem. Part of the problem is that mandatory Windows OS often signals sysadmins that doesn't care, so you often get tragically bad antivirus, possibly misconfigured at that.
- fomine3 6y ago
  I/O on Windows is definitively slower point and it affects git performance but OP says about GUI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525