Comment by const_cast
1 month ago
> That is because Windows for the most part manages itself
Windows is the least "manage itself" OS out of all OS available today. It needs pretty constant maintenance and esoteric enchantments to keep trucking.
1 month ago
> That is because Windows for the most part manages itself
Windows is the least "manage itself" OS out of all OS available today. It needs pretty constant maintenance and esoteric enchantments to keep trucking.
That’s not my experience with it. I have 2 windows installations at home and they both seem fine.
I must admit - I spent about an hour figuring out how to turn off telemetry and other junk after installation. But since then, windows has been trucking along just fine.
I use Windows at work, this is just not my experience. It needs to be rebooted every couple days or things just don't work.
I wonder why! Has your workplace installed weird junk on the machine which is gumming it up? Are you using some set of configuration options that microsoft doesn't regularly check?
My experience of windows is that it works pretty well these days. But I don't develop on windows - I just use it for entertainment (steam, vlc, etc). So there's probably a lot of edge cases that I'm not hitting.
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No it doesn't. I barely do anything to manage my Windows Installation. I install loads of garbage (I mostly still run the same programs as I did 15 years ago).
I don't understand why people propagate these falsehoods.
Because we actually use the operating system?
Windows rots. Even a few days without a reboot and things will just stop working or be really slow. No idea why.
But if you don't clean install once every few years you'll just have a ton of shit everywhere. Programs don't clean themselves up.
Also every program has its own update mechanism. Great... now I don't just have to manage windows update, but also a few dozen other esoteric update mechanisms.
iOS and Android are self managing. Windows? Can we be for real? Why get on the internet and lie to people?