I've been using Linux for my personal laptops for years but I've always ran Windows for my work PCs for software compatibility reasons if nothing else.
But these last few years, Windows is just getting so bad I'm thinking I'll put Linux on my main work PCs even.
My plan is to get a basic laptop with Windows 11 on it and just run any Windows-only stuff I need on that, and keep it near my work PC throughout the day. So if there's anything stupid I need Windows for, I can just open up the laptop, do whatever needs to be done on that, transfer the files back over to my work PC and carry on my merry way.
I’d recommend setting up the laptop to accept RDP connections so you don’t have the added friction of physically opening a laptop nor the burden of having the laptop occupy space somewhere within reach when you are required to do the windows specific work.
I just can't get over how File Explorer never loads if I open it directly (which is "Home"). I always have to right-click and go to another folder, or restart explorer.exe.
Windows file explorer parses files in the folder you are looking at.
It does things like read jpg files to get the date that that a photograph was taken from the EXIF data, read eml files to get the date that a saved email was received and read mp4 files to get "DateReleased" or "DateEncoded".
For me it’s the image thumbnail cache, my 4090 can run crysis but somehow the images in file explorer are all placeholders (cpu is busily thumbnailing images which exist offscreen)
I thought this reddit comment was kind of revealing:
>My dad worked at MS in the 90s writing kernel stuff yet completely swore off windows as soon as vista hit. I remember his exact words were “what the fuck”.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 39.1 ms ] threadBut these last few years, Windows is just getting so bad I'm thinking I'll put Linux on my main work PCs even.
My plan is to get a basic laptop with Windows 11 on it and just run any Windows-only stuff I need on that, and keep it near my work PC throughout the day. So if there's anything stupid I need Windows for, I can just open up the laptop, do whatever needs to be done on that, transfer the files back over to my work PC and carry on my merry way.
Will that be a slight annoyance? Yeah it will.
But not quite as annoying as Windows has gotten.
https://www.blobstreaming.org/former-microsoft-developer-say...
And Tweets in question:
https://nitter.poast.org/anerdguynow/status/1777764221088129...
https://nitter.poast.org/anerdguynow/status/1777880558556807...
It does things like read jpg files to get the date that that a photograph was taken from the EXIF data, read eml files to get the date that a saved email was received and read mp4 files to get "DateReleased" or "DateEncoded".
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230921-00/?p=10...
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1ahub6n/disa...
>My dad worked at MS in the 90s writing kernel stuff yet completely swore off windows as soon as vista hit. I remember his exact words were “what the fuck”.