Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
Microsoft really needs to solve or at least mitigate these issues.<p>I've been using Windows as my main development environment for mainly JavaScript and Python for like 5 years now, and I've felt every single one of these pain points (if you haven't, go read parts 0 and 1 of the same series! They are great!).<p>Some of them I've tried to mitigate (I'll be looking over my suite of tools to see if any "file watchers" are causing issues now, as well as using the fantastic looking tool from the article to dive into this slowness I feel), but for the most part it's just a cost of working on Windows for me, and it's pushing me away.<p>With a fraction of the power, I can get magnitudes more "perceived performance" out of Linux or MacOS, and I'm now starting to use linux VMs more to get that performance back (which is such a weird sentence!)<p>There are things about Linux that I hate as a desktop OS (for me they always seem to "deteriorate" over like 6 months and need a reinstall to stay stable, and I've on more than 5 occasions installed something and restarted only to find the machine unbootable...), and there's things I hate about MacOS (the keyboards, the hardware requirements, being linux-ey enough that it feels familiar, but not enough that stuff just works for me), but I can't deny that when I work in those OSs, I'm more productive and spend less time waiting for my machine to do little tasks, and therefore have much less aversion to them (at this point I've almost developed a phobia of having to move, copy, or rename large numbers of files on Windows, and it shows as a lack of organization in projects because of how flakey and time consuming it can be).<p>I know it won't be easy, but MS is going to start losing devs and eventually users if this keeps up and the other OSs keep pulling ahead in percevied performance.<p>(As an aside, and just to jump the gun a bit with the expected replies, I'm fairly certain my Linux-as-a-desktop-os issues are self inflicted or come from a lack of understanding of something on my part, but I haven't had the time to dive into what they are, and a slow OS is better than a non-functional one. Hopefully my increased usage of VMs now will iron out those issues without as much risk)