Didn't use windows for over a decade but my refurbished x270 came with it and damn.. They f-ing raped the f outta it. Every action has a kinda lag, nothing is instant. I saw that on my dad's laptop too and thought it was the HD. And why the f can't I smash ctrl+alt+del at boot anymore? It just f-ing ignores. Took a lot of attempts before i found out how to boot from usb. I would not for any $$$ work on windows anymore. Thank God .Net core exists for linux and works great

I have a dual boot setup (Windows + Linux) and both are good for their use cases.

Windows has gaming so it scores a point there.

Linux, where do I even start.

@retoor

You can.

The thing is windows nowadays hardly ever does a cold start from boot.

What they call "shutdown" is more closely defined as "close everything, log out and hibernate".

For reference (for others, since you already found out), when you want a true restart from bios, you can do so by holding shift while clicking start > shutdown/restart.

@CoreFusionX I noticed. The horror is over now. Running from my blazing fast xubuntu.

Already went to Tilburg && did you say/heard "Houdoe"?

@SidTheITGuy Linux is so much more responsive imo. On windows I'm 10x faster than the machine. Probably sending all my keystrokes to NSA for every window opening && closing.

I don't game. Studying hardcore atm

@retoor what you studying?

@SidTheITGuy crafting compilers. 1016 pages book. It's about writing a language. First in Java, then in C. I actually like Java but the vm boots so slow. My interpreter lexes > 1mln tokens in 0.3 sec or smth. Ooeehh.

I wrote language before but:
1. Source on crashed laptop
2. Was total own design and was not easy to extend

I've learned so much already, I'm just at page 100. Especially some terminology.

I calculated that this will cost me around 150hrs. Ten pages/hour+0. 5*margin

@retoor

Not yet. Concert is September 16th.

Staying in Eindhoven though cuz it was cheaper and easier access from the airport.

On my company Windows laptop, Intel 11th gen with SSD, right-click in the explorer can easily cause several seconds of "not responding" before that stupid thing opens the fucking context menu. In particular on network drives, but sometimes even locally. Piece of shit.

@SidTheITGuy Windows having gaming is such a narrow point nowadays. Thanks to proton games usually run pretty well on a lot of linux distros. Especially since the Steam deck exists... you know, a gaming device that runs Steam OS, a Linux distro

To even further that: macOS has implemented something similar for their devices, so they can run windows games, so it's only a matter of time, until it becomes absolutely meaningless to have windows for gaming.

People might be asking: what about that cool feature where windows has support for linux stuff with WSL? Well have you actually tried it? i did, it somewhat works, but causes a lot of problems aswell, which is quite in the spirit of MS (not to mention, that the software that runs on it, needs to be made "compatible wit WSL")