I recently had to use windows for stuff and after a year of using Linux, it made me realise how janky windows is in comparison. Even on a top spec pc unminimized (or resized) windows flash white before their contents appear. Super-d to minimize/maximize doesn’t bring all windows back up or in the same order. And these are greatly amplified when the computer isn’t that powerful, so much so that you can see individual regions of some programs render one by one. In addition, moving the kde connect window sometimes made the screen stutter and flicker (???) and at some point my mouse stopped working (touchpad was fine), I tried reinstalling drivers and stuff but ultimately I had to reboot for it to work again.
Brings back memories of my laptop loudly booting up in the middle of the night for no apparent cause or reason and mouse cursor going invisible upon random boots that made me save a file in the middle of the desktop about how to fix it.
It’s incredible how Linux is both free and a more stable experience, even as a nvidia+wayland user.
I love Linux, but you got some weird shit going on with your PC. I’ve got 3 4K monitors hooked up to a moderate-spec PC (Ryzen 9 3900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB) and I never saw white flashes when adjusting windows. Also it only rebooted when I told it to and never made much noise (quiet fans and all solid-state storage). Can’t say I ever used the super-D thing intentionally (I launched programs from the start menu, never used desktop shortcuts).
I run Linux now because it’s sick as tits and it’s the principle of the thing, but windows has been pretty fuckin’ rock-solid since 10. Shit, I had more graphical instability with Linux a few months ago, but that’s just because I insist on using Wayland, and Nvidia drivers had a rough year last year.
I guess experiences vary. My laptop is a quite old system so the problems are more apparent but as I said they exist in modern hardware too. I’ll try to record tomorrow to show what I mean.
I never had my laptop reboot on its own neither thankfully. Although forgot to mention the overhead windows has for seemingly no benefit. It constantly used 20% ish of the laptop’s cpu. And search indexer claiming external drives as its own and preventing ejection…
I have a worstation Zbook, not newest but very good specs. The problem with Windows is it is inconsistent. Sometimes things go well, and sometimes like OP mentioned I open a folder in file explorer and i get a white window while Windows figures out if it wants to show me files in that folder.
Sometimes I unzip an archive and no folder or files showup, even after a refresh, so I try the unzip again and it tells me thr files/folder already exists LOL.
When I add a network share to a mapped drive letter in the command prompt it shows up fine in the command line for use, but does not update network mapped drives in File Explorer. Last Year this worked 100% fine…so some update killed whatever update process should happen.
I could go on, but I think you would get bored. And before people say “it must be your machine” I also run another brand new workstation managed by a corporation. Many weird issues there also.
Here are depictions of (in order):
Resized window going white before it’s contents resize
Window tiling suggestions only animating right side of the screen
Windows rendering one by one after super+d
The kdeconnect stuttering I mentioned happening with passmark. Not sure if it’s visible in the video, but was very noticeable in person and also made the display brightness fluctuate. (This is probably a problem specific to my install/configuration as it didn’t used to happen in the previous install)