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This is a very outdated take on windows. I’m not sure what “multitasking is bad” means, but I do a heck of a lot of multitasking on windows every day with reso
by Merad 4y ago
This is a very outdated take on windows.
I’m not sure what “multitasking is bad” means, but I do a heck of a lot of multitasking on windows every day with resource intensive developer tools with no problem, and have been doing so for over a decade.
Apps can be killed via task manager without doing anything special. You might run into an occasional rare bug where explorer freezes so you can’t open task manager, but I can’t recall the last time it happened to me (and you can’t tell me with a straight face the Linux or MacOS are completely free from wild edge case bugs of that sort).
I used to religiously reformat and reinstall windows. It’s been completely unnecessary since at least Windows 7. My personal desktop ran from 2014 to 2021 on the same install, including a Win7 -> Win10 upgrade.
You certainly may not like the registry, but it’s hard to make a compelling argument that it’s been a source of problems since Win7. To be honest I think all of the registry problems I can recall seeing in the last decade were caused by people being sucked in by “registry cleaner” scamware/malware apps claiming to fix non-existent problems.
- winrid 4y agoTry to sort by name in task manager and wait as it locks up for seconds.
- hashmash 4y agoI just did and it was instantaneous. How many tasks are you running?
- winrid 4y agoI'll have to check when I get home this weekend. Can't be that many. Biggest thing would be my 50 chrome tabs :)
- winrid 4y ago(I also have 64gb of ram and 16 threads...)
- hashmash 4y agoSeems like something wonky with your Windows setup. Too much memory and threads? I've "only" got 20GB and 8 threads.
- winrid 4y ago396 processes and 6452 threads running. Sorting in "Processes" tab locks up the UI and my mouse won't even move for seconds. Other apps work fine. Webstorm and Intellij work fine...
- drittich 4y agoSame experience here. I work my machine hard. It runs 24x7, hosts many sites, databases, Plex, and I do some pretty heavy development work on it daily. It pretty much "just works". The last time I had to routinely reinstall Windows was Windows XP. Ever since Windows 7 driver stability is significantly better. Despite all the bad press, the Windows 11 upgrade was smooth for me. Yes, the OS has some annoying features, but all in all it's been remarkably stable.