Is Windows a crąppy OS?

Dec 27, 2021 10 Comments

I worked 4 years at Google using Linux.

Then, I spent 3 years at Amazon using Mac OS.

Now I’m using Windows at MSFT and the reliability sücks. Apps freeze, features stop working (need to restart it), the hardware sücks, etc.

Those are just my opinions/experience.

Thoughts?

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  • Oracle
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    Not Oracle
    Yes
    Dec 27, 2021 0
  • New / Eng
    maxramp

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    maxramp
    It’s hard to say. I’ve used all three OSes mentioned.

    macOS is clearly the most polished of the bunch. True, Apple pretty strictly proscribes the hardware you can use it on and to some degree the software, but frontend devs love it. I hate it because I’m mostly using an IDE, a browser, and a terminal and don’t need the other bells and whistles. Plus, the hardware was awful and the cooling was extremely horrible until Apple Silicon came along, which mostly fixes these issues but has the downside of requiring you to spend lots of money. Also Docker sucks to use on a Mac.

    Windows is a genuine mess. Cobbled together with hacks, half-measures, and still stuck with a DOS legacy despite a modern kernel, the experience just about works, and that’s about it. It’s success largely owes itself to Microsoft’s position in providing the first bundled OS for the PC and it’s stagnated. Microsoft has pretty much given up on Windows as a client and server platform, it’s increasingly converging with Linux and the like with each day. It’s a bad sign when developers prefer WSL over a native Windows environment to do their work. Still your only choice if you care about gaming, basically.

    Which brings me to Linux. The Linux desktop is utterly broken. Everybody wants their own spin on it, and there are few standards, with multiple toolkits and desktop environments. The environments you do have are broken in lots of ways. It’s hard to choose. On the other hand, developer tooling is excellent just like any other Unix-like OS out there, and it’s what most people use in production… so for me, it’s the least horrible choice.
    Dec 27, 2021 0
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  • Robinhood / Eng
    STOCKD0WN

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    Microsoft
    STOCKD0WN
    If you work at microsoft you’ll quickly realize that the daily new builds for teams, edge, and outlook will totally screw your productivity
    Dec 27, 2021 0
  • Apple
    code jello

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    code jello
    Windows is good, I like it more than macos
    Dec 27, 2021 0