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Windows have really evolved and improved as an OS. WSL2 + vscode is almost replacing my need for a VM or a linux box for most of my needs. The oss is also much
by soulbadguy 2y ago
Windows have really evolved and improved as an OS. WSL2 + vscode is almost replacing my need for a VM or a linux box for most of my needs. The oss is also much more stable, the update less annoying and the UI/design language pretty nice.
Sadly MSFT being MSFT, after all of this progress, they are now regressing with ads and news inserted inside the desktop. Weird telemetry and loging requirements and now with AI everywhere.
And if any one from the windows team is reading this... FIX DESKTOP SEARCH :)
- whartung 2y agoThis was, sheesh, 20 years ago, but my nit with Windows is how it always locks files. And using your example of Desktop Search, more than once I’ve had a build fail because it could not delete the files in the artifact directory because the desktop search was indexing one of the files. Not often, not always, just enough to be very annoying. I was always bumping heads with file locks one way or another.
- pjmlp 2y agoWhile the experience could be better, UNIX is the outlier on bad approaches to file locks, meaning having none at all. There is a reason why UNIX file locks are called advisory.
- akkad33 2y agoI still find windows slow. They recently launched tabs in file explorer but opening a tab is actually slower than opening a new window. And with the new AI stuff it was a good time for me to switch to Linux