Windows line wrap

[Grondhammar]

Not worth its own thread, but I just noticed the informative linewrap on the PowerShell folder... Did not know this, but it makes sense (said by a 10 hrs a day Linux user).

 

[Judge]

Not too long ago I reinstalled Windows 10 on a spare SSD and it reminded me of how needlessly complex and overdone Windows is in comparison with Linux. Yet to consider that Windows 10 was considerably less problematic than Windows 11.

Made it a joy to return to Linux. Still not sure if I even want to install Windows 11 on another SSD just as a platform to play games and little else. May not be worth so many headaches one can completely bypass in using a Linux distribution of your choice.

Ironic that Linux is so pliable that you can customize it NOT to be needlessly complex even less than it already is compared to Windows. Where I simply turn off the visability of sections of Linux I never access anyways by simply unchecking a box using the Cinnamon menu editor. Showing only features I want to remain visible by my choice alone...and not any monolithic developer like Microsoft.

 

[Grondhammar]

Need an "amen, brother" reaction on here.

Linux modularity is such a key feature. Turn this off, turn that on, install a piece you'd like to use, then nuke it when it doesn't quite do the job and find something else. Such a wide-open landscape to work with.

I just wish everything in the Steam ecosystem worked with it... games and the occasional work need are the only reasons I keep Windows around.

 

[Judge]

Need an "amen, brother" reaction on here.

Linux modularity is such a key feature. Turn this off, turn that on, install a piece you'd like to use, then nuke it when it doesn't quite do the job and find something else. Such a wide-open landscape to work with.

Freedom of choice. "Have it your way". I love that. A "non-oppressive" operating system.

I just wish everything in the Steam ecosystem worked with it... games and the occasional work need are the only reasons I keep Windows around.

I suppose that's a "work in progress" in terms of distributions that specifically cater to gamers. With some touted as better than others.

 

[Outdated]

I gave up on Windows 20 years ago, at least with Linux when something doesn't work you get a reasonable amount of information about the problem and can often work it out if you're determined. Windows just tells you to "contact your system administrator", a polite way of saying "tell someone who cares".

I just wish everything in the Steam ecosystem worked with it... games and the occasional work need are the only reasons I keep Windows around.

I never play games online so I do a lot of mucking around with GOG versions of games and wine. It's a bit hit and miss but when a game runs under wine it runs so much batter than in Windows.

It was that point that really sold me on Linux, for the first few years I was dual booting both Linux and Windows and the difference was chalk and cheese. Games that ran really well in Linux seemed to struggle under Windows by comparison.

 

[Judge]

It was that point that really sold me on Linux, for the first few years I was dual booting both Linux and Windows and the difference was chalk and cheese. Games that ran really well in Linux seemed to struggle under Windows by comparison.

I've often noted that as a matter of memory allocation. That Windows is such a bloated operating system requiring so much memory to sustain it. Leaving less memory for individual applications to nominally run on.

OTOH, Linux uses up very little memory in comparison. So it's no wonder Windows apps often run better in Linux than they do in Windows 10 or 11. Something that certainly stands out to me in using a 27-year old version of Photoshop in Linux without issues that I had while running it in Windows 10.

Small wonder as well that I can run the latest version of Linux Mint 22 on a 15-year old hardware platform without any problems. No current Intel cpu, TPM 2.0 or Secure Boot required.

Making this coming week a good time to migrate to something else besides Windows 11. Or to at least take a look at what's out there.

 

[Outdated]

I've often noted that as a matter of memory allocation. That Windows is such a bloated operating system requiring so much memory to sustain it. Leaving less memory for individual applications to nominally run on.

It's not so much about the amount of ram Windows needs as it is about the way in which Windows uses that ram, exactly the same way in which it uses (abuses) harddrive space. Windows uses Random Access Memory in a truly random fashion, storing fragments of files here there and everywhere and it needs to maintain a fairly complex journal of what it put where.

Remember having to defrag your harddrive on a regular basis? Windows has exactly that same problem with the way in which it uses ram.

 

[Judge]

It's not so much about the amount of ram Windows needs as it is about the way in which Windows uses that ram, exactly the same way in which it uses (abuses) harddrive space. Windows uses Random Access Memory in a truly random fashion, storing fragments of files here there and everywhere and it needs to maintain a fairly complex journal of what it put where.

Remember having to defrag your harddrive on a regular basis? Windows has exactly that same problem with the way in which it uses ram.

True, in addition to memory restrictions Windows always scatters itself all over a conventional hard drive, requiring periodic defragmentation. Inevitably slows down applications where higher performance is required.

Though in my own case I've been using SSDs exclusively for years, which do not require defragmentation at all. Yet I do wish Samsung would develop and port their proprietary maintenance software for their SSDs to Linux operating systems. So far they pander only to Windows...maybe Mac too. Defragmenting an SSD can shorten that drive's lifespan.