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Discussion on: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Yury Zhuravlev •

Windows has horrible and not flexible UI:

  1. I can't change the locale by capslock.
  2. I can't scroll tabs by mouse.
  3. I can't use the middle button on a mouse for the second copy/paste buffer.
  4. Still can't change the workspace to a specific one without AutoHotkey script.
  5. UI even from MS inconsistent, you can see Win32, W7 and W10 windows together.
  6. I can't find a normal terminal with competition performance and strange bugs around codepages and Japanese Windows (yes, some Windows versions has a big difference under the hood).

Technical problem:

  1. FS and IO substem much slower than Linux (you can check phoronix.com/)
  2. IO for WSL it's horrible! For some tasks not acceptable even for dev environment.
  3. ... here all glitches and bsods and malware.
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Tim Apple •
  1. not something I ever used...
  2. Never done things this way either
  3. I'm old, I guess I only use middle mouse for scrolling.
  4. That is a little annoying, I usually never have more than three going so I don't mind using ctrl+win left or right arrow.
  5. On Linux, there is GTK2, GTK3, QT, and a couple others.. same thing to me.
  6. The new Windows Terminal is pretty good. Hoping it becomes the default someday.

Technical

  1. don't really notice this, but I have pretty good hardware.
  2. WSL2 is much better
  3. I have never had a bsod on windows.. never had an issue with maleware.. I have had a couple of glitches, but i've been an insider since windows came out, so I'm not sure it's because I'm using advanced builds or it's an actual true stable release thing.

cheers