Re:Switching to Linux: A Windows developer’s view
by billswift on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:42AM
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I have a 2 year old Vista machine, the biggest problem I have is that it sometimes (2-3x per day) locks up while running a major HD write or read, usually with no warning, sometimes when I haven't even been doing anything on the machine. Also, I wiped my Norton Antivirus, it would start running virus checks every week, which it was supposed to, but for some f-ed up reason it ALWAYS did it when I was in the middle of a game, and I don't spend much time playing games.
Windows swapping algorithms suck big time. After coming back to work I need to wait for windows to swap eclipse/ff to ram... Wtf was it doing overnight that warrented a need for disk swap? Heavy thinking?
After leaving ubuntu on all night the performance tomorrow is as if I never left the keyboard.
Last job windows shutdown took 3 min, startup took 10. The system did suffer from memory leaks or appeared to since after like 2 weeks it had to be rebooted or it worked like crap. Coulda been antivirus pos software though. Reboots were also needed at times, just the nature of not having kill -9.
Another complaint: can't delete open files. Our av program broke our build caz we could not run cleanup scripts where applicable.
In any case after 3 month of bliss I have nightmares that next job ill be coding in windows. Maybe 7 aint so bad...