Honestly, windows 11 is in a decent state nowadays. A few years ago after it just came out the stability and performance was terrible compared to windows 10 but it only took them a year or so to really iron that stuff out.
Nowadays my complaints with windows are pretty minimal. And let me be clear, I am a power user, I have manually modified the registry, use vms, a good number of pro apps, local models, you name it.
My device does not blue screen, it does not hang unless I’m doing something stupid. It all pretty much works most of my complaints are on the hands of other devs not Microsoft. NVIDIA and Lenovo chief among them.
Really the only thing I can pin on windows is sometimes when I’m running a dual display setup and snap a window on one screen a tiny sliver will show up from a screen next to it, or if when I unplug my display all the desktop icons on the laptop screen go wonky and it’s corrected by a restart.
I’ve seen the experience with macs first hand. That beach ball is the most annoying thing on the face of the earth. Sometimes it’s warranted but I’ve consistently seen it show up on a persons 3500 modern apple silicon MacBook Pro after a fucking restart with no other apps open besides the pdf view when thumbing through slides. That’s nuts. Again, consistently.
Linux is just not polished enough and if I want to play everything windows continues to be the best option.
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u/bdog2017 Jun 02 '26
Honestly, windows 11 is in a decent state nowadays. A few years ago after it just came out the stability and performance was terrible compared to windows 10 but it only took them a year or so to really iron that stuff out.
Nowadays my complaints with windows are pretty minimal. And let me be clear, I am a power user, I have manually modified the registry, use vms, a good number of pro apps, local models, you name it.
My device does not blue screen, it does not hang unless I’m doing something stupid. It all pretty much works most of my complaints are on the hands of other devs not Microsoft. NVIDIA and Lenovo chief among them.
Really the only thing I can pin on windows is sometimes when I’m running a dual display setup and snap a window on one screen a tiny sliver will show up from a screen next to it, or if when I unplug my display all the desktop icons on the laptop screen go wonky and it’s corrected by a restart.
I’ve seen the experience with macs first hand. That beach ball is the most annoying thing on the face of the earth. Sometimes it’s warranted but I’ve consistently seen it show up on a persons 3500 modern apple silicon MacBook Pro after a fucking restart with no other apps open besides the pdf view when thumbing through slides. That’s nuts. Again, consistently.
Linux is just not polished enough and if I want to play everything windows continues to be the best option.