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GaryBluto[dead post] ◴[14 Dec 25 00:18 UTC] No.46259583[source]▶
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sky2224 ◴[14 Dec 25 00:23 UTC] No.46259618[source]▶
There genuinely are some great things about Windows as a developer. Also, I like to play games and Linux isn't quite there yet.
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bigstrat2003 ◴[14 Dec 25 01:08 UTC] No.46259906[source]▶
I'm confused by your statement. I'm a serious gamer and I've been on Linux for years. It's there, and it's been there for a while.

I feel you on liking things about Windows though. I'm a Windows guy by nature. I genuinely like the OS, and if Microsoft wasn't being so absurdly user-hostile I would switch back in a heartbeat.

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1. delta_p_delta_x ◴[14 Dec 25 02:06 UTC] No.46260214[source]▶
I use NVIDIA hardware which objectively have superior maximum performance compared to AMD graphics cards. I use HDR high pixel density monitors as well. I like laptops with decent battery life and decent touch pads.

Windows simply offers a cleaner, more well put-together experience when it comes to these edge cases. I have many tiny nitpicks about how Linux behaves, and every time I go back to my Windows Enterprise install it is a breath of fresh air that my 170% scaling and HDR just work. No finagling with a million different environment variables or CLI options. If a program hasn't opted into resolution independent scaling then I just disable it, and somehow the vector elements are still scaled correctly, leaving only the raster elements blurry. Nowadays laptop touch pads feel like they are Macs, which is high praise and a sea change from where Windows touch pads were about a decade ago.

If you strip away all the AI nonsense, Windows is a genuinely decent platform for getting anything done. Seriously, MS Office blows everything else out of the water. I still go back to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when I want to do productivity. Adobe suite, pro audio tools, Da Vinci Resolve, etc, they just... work. If you haven't programmed in Visual Studio or used WinDbg then you have not used a serious, high-end debugger. GDB and perf are not even in the same league.

As a Windows power user, I want to go back to the Windows 2000 GUI shell, but with all the modernity of Windows 11's kernel and user-space libraries and drivers. I wish Enterprise was the default release, not the annoying Home versions. And I really, really wish Windows was open-sourced. Not just the kernel, but the user mode as well, because the user mode is where a lot of the juice is, and is what makes Windows Windows.