hello everyone, so not totally CachyOS/linux related, but I’ve run CachyOS on my Alienware for the last year, learnt the ins and outs for it and fully replaced windows in my household for everything. I recently got accepted to a computer programming course in college and it states that windows is a requirement.
I purchased a new laptop (zephyrus duo) for school with windows, but I’m seriou struggling to migrate back. Not that windows is particularly hard to use, but more the fact that it doesn’t feel good to use, it’s eating ram (idles at 8-12gb ram usage with no programs open and no armoury crate install) and the cpu won’t calm down for anything (won’t fully idle at lowest clock speeds regardless of setting minimum idle clocks, lowest power modes etc)
I have also removed copilot, and all telemetry, as well as removed all startup processes and disabled most unnecessary processes at startup.
so my question for everyone is, if you took programming in college, did you have to use windows, or did you find an alternative way that worked for you via Linux?
I have looked into winboat which COULD work, but I’m not super sure what all I’m using for the course yet