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Windows is bad and getting worse but dealing with apple isn't exactly a pleasant alternative... i'd rather rip my teeth out...

mrguyorama 4y ago
The UI of windows keeps getting polluted with things I have to dismiss (once), but the kernel continues to get better than it was, in ways that make things way better as a gamer and much more palatable as a hobby dev. I'd rather have a windows computer and WSL for work than the shitty mac I use, and I write python for a living where windows is straight up unsupported except by third parties.
- LightHugger 4y ago
  Gaming is objectively worse on everything past w7 because of forced dwm triple buffering...
- rolenthedeep 4y ago
  Take a look at window's Bluetooth API sometime. It's documented poorly and a lot of it simply doesn't work. Windows 10+ has the worst Bluetooth implementation of any operating system. Microsoft just released a developer preview for audio sinking. They're advertising a feature to play audio from a Bluetooth device through your PC. Everyone else has had this feature pretty much the entire time. Windows is the only one that didn't have this feature. Windows 7 had it, though. The driver implementation is much worse than it's ever been, and the built in UI is barely functional. It's got the absolute bare minimum to make it work and nothing else. The state of Bluetooth on Windows today is frankly an embarrassment. It's a significant regression from windows 7, and it's put them way behind Linux and Mac. Worst of all it's been like this for years and Microsoft hasn't done anything. I'm a developer, and I've been fighting Bluetooth for the last three weeks. Windows updated the Bluetooth stack the other day, and some slight behavior change broke our software overnight. It's been frustrating to say the least.
ajkjk 4y ago
Apple's better IMO unless you have to actually interact with Apple the company in, like, any way.

mrguyorama 4y ago

The UI of windows keeps getting polluted with things I have to dismiss (once), but the kernel continues to get better than it was, in ways that make things way better as a gamer and much more palatable as a hobby dev. I'd rather have a windows computer and WSL for work than the shitty mac I use, and I write python for a living where windows is straight up unsupported except by third parties.

LightHugger 4y ago
Gaming is objectively worse on everything past w7 because of forced dwm triple buffering...
rolenthedeep 4y ago
Take a look at window's Bluetooth API sometime. It's documented poorly and a lot of it simply doesn't work. Windows 10+ has the worst Bluetooth implementation of any operating system. Microsoft just released a developer preview for audio sinking. They're advertising a feature to play audio from a Bluetooth device through your PC. Everyone else has had this feature pretty much the entire time. Windows is the only one that didn't have this feature. Windows 7 had it, though. The driver implementation is much worse than it's ever been, and the built in UI is barely functional. It's got the absolute bare minimum to make it work and nothing else. The state of Bluetooth on Windows today is frankly an embarrassment. It's a significant regression from windows 7, and it's put them way behind Linux and Mac. Worst of all it's been like this for years and Microsoft hasn't done anything. I'm a developer, and I've been fighting Bluetooth for the last three weeks. Windows updated the Bluetooth stack the other day, and some slight behavior change broke our software overnight. It's been frustrating to say the least.

ajkjk 4y ago

Apple's better IMO unless you have to actually interact with Apple the company in, like, any way.