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I think people care but there are no alternatives. My 3 month old Windows 11 machine with a Ryzen 5700 and an RTX 3080 regularly starts chugging on stupid thing

I think people care but there are no alternatives. My 3 month old Windows 11 machine with a Ryzen 5700 and an RTX 3080 regularly starts chugging on stupid things like moving a window, chrome will randomly just peg a cpu with some sort of "report" process, and visual studio locks up when the laptop awakes from sleeping. Id drop it in a second but for what? Mac sucks for game development, has the same issues with too many weird background processes, and linux distros never seem to work on laptops well, even ones designed for it (system 76 for instance). The aren't real alternatives.

LtWorf 4y ago
By people I think he meant "product managers", not users.
mft_ 4y ago
(I know that this is not the ideal solution, but) I had sucesss by installing a trimmed-down 'gamer' version of Windows 11 on a similarly high-specced PC, and it's still blazingly fast nearly a year later. (If you go this route, you've got to be careful what's been trimmeed, mind, if you want to use it for general purposes - mine doesn't have WSL and seems to have damaged printing support, which is obviously suboptimal depending on your needs.)
- overgard 4y ago
  How does one find such an edition?
  - nyanpasu64 4y ago
    Ameliorated Windows 10 is one "distro" I use and (blindly) trust. It lacks store app support (not a problem), .appx package support (annoying when you want Windows Terminal), creating new user accounts (unacceptable on any machine used by multiple people), and has questionable "security" decisions by default like requiring a separate admin password for elevation, disabling VBS scripts, and an ugly logon screen wallpaper that requires downloading and blindly trusting a PowerShell script from the Internet to change (https://git.ameliorated.info/Joe/amecs https://git.ameliorated.info/Joe/amecs). Frankly... if you're using it for situations that need security, you're better off running the (documented) amelioration steps yourself than downloading shady ISOs and wallpaper changers from online.
  - mft_ 4y ago
    Torrent sites, ideally combined wiith a legitimate serial #.

LtWorf 4y ago

By people I think he meant "product managers", not users.

mft_ 4y ago

(I know that this is not the ideal solution, but) I had sucesss by installing a trimmed-down 'gamer' version of Windows 11 on a similarly high-specced PC, and it's still blazingly fast nearly a year later. (If you go this route, you've got to be careful what's been trimmeed, mind, if you want to use it for general purposes - mine doesn't have WSL and seems to have damaged printing support, which is obviously suboptimal depending on your needs.)

overgard 4y ago
How does one find such an edition?
- nyanpasu64 4y ago
  Ameliorated Windows 10 is one "distro" I use and (blindly) trust. It lacks store app support (not a problem), .appx package support (annoying when you want Windows Terminal), creating new user accounts (unacceptable on any machine used by multiple people), and has questionable "security" decisions by default like requiring a separate admin password for elevation, disabling VBS scripts, and an ugly logon screen wallpaper that requires downloading and blindly trusting a PowerShell script from the Internet to change (https://git.ameliorated.info/Joe/amecs https://git.ameliorated.info/Joe/amecs). Frankly... if you're using it for situations that need security, you're better off running the (documented) amelioration steps yourself than downloading shady ISOs and wallpaper changers from online.
- mft_ 4y ago
  Torrent sites, ideally combined wiith a legitimate serial #.