i love dotnet / c# and i would love to work with it again. i have been in the typescript/node world for the past 10 or so years, and while productive, it leaves much to be desired.
Some day our regulators at the fda, ftc, doj, etc should clean house and get some folks who can actually go after these greedy companies. Today they don’t because of the revolving door system.
Don’t you think it’s possible if drug advertising is banned then perhaps some of our media organizations may be at least slightly more inclined to investigate some of these hostile practices?
Our media organizations are still dependent on politicians, who themselves take billions in "donations" from healthcare corporations. Those same media organizations also have workers who are probably partially invested into pensions or other long-term safety nets who themselves are invested into healthcare companies.
I’m planning on not supporting Microsoft in any way in the future myself. I wish they would stop making their suite of products less usable and more bloated
I cannot believe how slow and laggy even the most basic of Microsoft applications are on Windows 11. Launching something as simple as the calculator takes a second or two to load in. What could it possibly be doing to warrant such a long load time? The 'classic' calculator on previous versions would appear near instantly once clicked.
I am also baffled as to how something like the new right click context menu can have items loading in and then changing the order of icons once they do finish loading on every single click. For example, why does Skype need to have its menu item load every time the context menu is opened? Why not pre-load this on boot? The classic context menu had no such issues.
Rather than go on and on, I sense Product Owners at Microsoft no longer care about fast and performant code.
The Windows app development situation has become such a mess even Microsoft devs want to use Electron style containment for everything. That is the result.
Edit to add: I'm sure other people can chip in with more, but what I was told was the .net teams and Windows teams pulled in completely different directions. WPF/XAML was really widely liked by many developers for quite a while, then they put it on ice for no apparent reason (supposedly because the core Windows team had better ideas), and their on/off stance on this ever since has just driven everyone away.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was with Outlook. They replaced the regular desktop Outlook app with "New Outlook", which is just a wrapper around Outlook.com, which is horrible and slow and buggy and even shows ads to the user. I guess they think it's a waste of money to develop a proper mail client app.
I also copied over the 'old' windows photo viewer. The delay in loading simple screenshots was such an annoyance that I couldn't stand it. Folks on forums suggested turning off any analysis plugins, such as those meant to identify faces in photographs to speed things up. It barely made a difference.
I've noticed this as well since our company laptops updated to Windows 11. Launching everything is slower but especially the built-in Microsoft apps like calc, notepad and mspaint. It's incredibly frustrating.
> Launching something as simple as the calculator takes a second or two to load in.
You can get this feature on Linux if you use flatpaks or snaps on an older computer. I got used to bearing with it because it allows me to have a stable core OS combined with modern applications that have been released today. It's a price I'm willing to pay. Nevertheless, I don't know how slow it is on a more modern machine, I guess it is probably quite fast.
Also, gnome-calculator is not an application I would install through a flatpak or snap.
When my laptop is on energy saving mode, the calculator crashes when opening. The snippet tool breaks the drag in the middle and delivers a partial screenshot. The system generally feels like slideshow.
These didn't happen under Windows 10.
Few weeks ago I also had my share of problems under Debian and I'm really thinking about getting the cheapest Mac Mini M4 and re-learning every possible computer habit I have including shortcuts because I hate the current status in any non-mac os/hardware so much.
I used to think gaming would always keep me pinned to Microsoft but with Valve and Playstation out competing them (while spending a fraction of the money) I think I'll never be in their gaming ecosystem again.
The only thing keeping me there on my desktop is games. If CoD would run on Linux, I would delete the Winders partition. I run Mac for my daily driver.
to clarify, it does scale better out of the box. a clustered websocket setup where reconnections can go to a different machine and resume state works our of the box. its a LOT of work do do that in nodejs. I've done both.
I'm a big fan of self hosting. I have learned a lot on a small hobby project.
for those who are curious about my setup, I bought a used Dell R630 on ebay for cheap. 1tb raid 1 on ssds, 32gb ram, 32 cores, and i am enjoying running a few small hobby apps with docker, virsh, and minikube (yes i learned all 3). I have a 1gbps fiber connection. I use a 1m cronjob to detect if my IP changes, and i use the linode api to change my DNS A records.
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