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So Long, Windows

Hey there, folks! Guess what? I’ve made the switch to Linux!

Agustin Tormun
4 min readJul 22, 2023
I do not own the rights of both images, I just mixed them to look funny. Sorry!

It all started when I got my current job. Since 2018, I’ve been rocking a gaming laptop from MSI, running Windows all this time. I started with Windows 10 and then upgraded to 11, even got one of those snazzy pro OEM licenses. The main reason I went pro was for Docker, but honestly, it didn’t bring me any extra benefits.

As a full-stack developer at my current gig, I use Typescript, Node, AWS, and Next — nothing too crazy. But even with 16 GB of RAM and a 9th-gen i7 processor, my computer struggled whenever I tried to fire up the backend project running on Lambdas. Everything just became painfully slow. I used to love WebStorm as my IDE but I had to switch to VS Code. It’s not my favorite, but hey, it gets the job done.

I’ve never been too careful about monitoring my computer’s performance, but now I noticed it was constantly hovering around seventy percent of memory usage. Every time I joined a Meets meeting, my laptop would just freeze up completely. Not cool.

This went on for weeks, and I also noticed that the OS itself, with nothing else open, was consuming around thirty-three percent of memory. Is that normal? I don’t have a ton of stuff installed or running simultaneously. No antivirus either — yeah, I’m living life on the edge…

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Agustin Tormun
Agustin Tormun

Written by Agustin Tormun

My thirst for knowledge knows no bounds. I'm a perpetual student, hungrily absorbing everything from history's whispers to the latest technological sorcery.

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