Fucking fuck Windows 10 is slow as shit...

*insert hateful Windows comments here*

I don't think it's necessary to mention that. Anyone who uses Windows knows it :)

@tracktraps totally disagree. There are Windows fanboys/girls everywhere lol

@n00bn00b Of course there are fanboys, but they're getting less and less. And they only exist because their software does not run on Linux.

I have installed Ubuntu on my father's laptop for testing purposes. His Microsoft Office and some camera software didn't run on it. Now he continues to use Windows and installs (as pretty much everyone I know) lots of tools to make Windows faster.

A vicious circle.

@tracktraps yeah but I don't think it will ever go away. Even with it being less and less everyday eventually that drop will flatline, simply because Microsoft has a stranglehold on a lot of markets and quite frankly Linux scares away average users.

I use Kali Linux for my hobbies, but so far using win10 for development.

@n00bn00b At the moment I only hear that Windows is getting slower and slower from update to update.

With the Windows 10 Creators update Microsoft has certainly not done itself a favor.

Besides, I hardly know tutorials like "How to make Linux faster".

Let's see what the future holds.

Yeah but the people who love Windows don't even notice or care much about that. I don't even have the creators update yet and it's still a boggish piece of shit and I guarantee mines probably faster than most.

It's not that I don't agree with you necessarily or hope you're right. Cause I do. But, from what I've seen general users are too stupid to give a shit. Anyone who could understand why Linux is better is probably on it at some capacity or is being forced to use Windows for work.

@Jop- Office 2016?

I've used both Windows and Linux since 1995. Every Windows version since WFW 3.11 and Linux from when the kernel could fit on a floppy.

I've programmed for all those variants and recompiled my Linux kernel more times than I care to admit.

Windows is not slow... It's just a popular myth because it's easy to hate on MS

Linux happens to suit a certain kind of usage pattern and Windows suits others.

Unless you have benchmarks such generalizations are meaningless superstition.

@Jop- 2007 and 2010 are quite old. That's the problem. My father has an Office 365 subscription ... doesn't run under wine. That was the crucial point, which is why he switched back to Windows. He doesn't really care about the operating system, he just wants his software to run.

But I'm sure that sometime in the future Microsoft will support the Wine project. Rumor has it that Adobe is also planning to support Linux natively or via wine.

Serif.com (Affinity Designer,...) once said they would support Linux if at least $500,000 in sales were secured to cover the development costs.

@repstosd "Windows is not slow" - Right. Not at the beginning, but it gets slower with time. Linux doesn't have the problem somehow. Strange, isn't it?

Because people install random shit.

I had a Windows XP install for 3 years... No slowdown, no crud.

@repstosd I suppose that's true. But shouldn't an operating system be able to cope with this? Why can software leave a lot of garbage after uninstalling?

What Windows is missing is a package management that prevents such crap.

@dontbeevil I don't use Linux because it's cool or trendy, but because I think it's just the better operating system and I can do things that are simply not possible under Windows.

#ilovetheshell

@dontbeevil If it works out great for you, it's great. I prefer Linux anyway.

Visual Studio is the best IDE ever written and it runs on Windows

invest in SSD

@repstosd Sure, but not necessarily the best for web development.

@repstosd
I think you mean Visual Studio Code **. Regular Visual Studio is slow as shit, but I love VScode to death and recommend it to everyone. ^~^

A typical day in devRant...

Some linux users touching themselves while bashing windows.

@repstosd a Windows xp install that wasn't slow? Buuuuullllllshiiiiiiiit. A Windows 7 install I could believe. Windows 8 and 10 have been slow even on clean and fresh installs. Anyone saying otherwise is literally lying or has really good hardware.

And for the record I'm not really hating on windows. I'm a multiplatform enthusiast. It all depends on what I'm looking to do. But, Windows 10 is out of the box slow as shit. Even after I cleaned out all the crapware that came with it.

@n00bn00b
"Not really hating on Windows" and
"Insert hateful Windows comments here"

Haha

@CodeKill fair enough lmfao, but I'm being mostly facetious. I am using Windows 10 after all, and I don't HAVE to. So I obviously don't completely hate it.

@dontbeevil it takes me the sum of five minutes to launch it on my gaming rig..

@dontbeevil
Yeah. Twin TB HDDs. They are higher speed, bit not "high speed". And tbh I just prefer VSC. I mostly work with Java, XML, and CSS, and VSC works great for me. It loads in < 10 seconds, which iss great because I close and open it a lot during the day.

@repstosd Just not true. Windows is fucking slow. I hate this fucking slow windows bull shit. Ahhhhh, RANTING is so much fun.

But seriously, compiling my 3d engine on Windows 10 is more than double as slow as compared of compiling it on Linux. On FreeBSD its even faster. I can provide exact numbers if interested.

What the heck was your use case? Super curious.