It's why I'm gonna change to Linux permanently come the end of Win10.
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And it's a terrible app, at that. No organization, just either some random application links, or one giant list with no categories or organization past alphabetical.
I'm foreseeing a spike in people asking me for help installing Linux.
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Switched to Linux at the beginning of the year. Still have a lobotomized local windows 11 boot for gaming/VR still though. Can't wait for the day I can finally get rid of it totally.
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This explains so much
AFAIK, React is a Single-Page Web Application that refreshes everytime something changes. It's benefits are fast load times and lower overhead because it ONLY updates things that are changed on re-render, but the downsides are that it relies on other libraries for things like multiple pages, etc.
So for it to be a Windows System application, yes that's fucking attrocious. Did you ever hear how angry people were about the Warcraft 3 update that added a bunch of webapp nonsense and bricked a lot of people's old copies? Well, that's basically what Windows 11 did.
I'm confused though. The op says "react native", but AFAIK, react native is a mobile app framework.
Does it work/deploy on desktop now?
React Native can be built for, not only mobile targets, but multiple platforms, such as Windows, tvs,..., or even the web, trying to use as much native implementations as possible. Now, should you?, that's a different discussion...
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For what it’s worth, GNOME Shell and its extensions are written in JavaScript too.
Yet using React is a red flag for an OS. You'd imagine Microsoft has the means to make it work with just JS. I doubt they use 10% of the React depency. All for a start menu...
So is using JavaScript. If I find any enduring process running on my computer running JavaScript, I mercilessly hunt it down, murder it, then uninstall it.
The only application I allow to run JS is the browser, because the modern web is almost unusable without it. No other app needs it, and there's always an alternative that doesn't.
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Jesus I really need to install linux don’t I?
Is there a distribution that is better at running conversion layers like Wine? I need to run some windows only software (Solidworks, Affinity Suite…)
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I can't reproduce the CPU spike, but Windows is overall slower. Strangely, the calendar on the taskbar takes a long time to load the first time that I open it.
I can make my CPU usage jump from next to nothing as it sits on the desktop not doing anything, to 100% usage by just shaking my mouse around like a maniac. 😤
Can someone explain what "react native" is?
React is a Web UI framework. React Native is the same thing but compiles to a native Windows executable (without the performance benefit of native code).
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It's a javascript app that uses the react library - which is an open source library originated by Meta. It's supposed to be easier to maintain and port cross platform apps. However it is not as efficient as a native app and given the Start menu is so frequently used it's probably not a very efficient way to program it (or parts of it - I think the start menu has reactive native components rather than entirely made in it).
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All the Windows fuckery aside, what's going on with Stallman in this picture? 🥺
Can I replace Windows with SteamOS directly yet? -Basic Win11 user who is getting sick of Win11. Get off my WinXpLawn
You can definitely replace it with Linux Mint, I did it 8 months ago and it was seamless, save for a little bit of fussing with my GPU driver.
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Every Facebook product is cancer including react