Windows keeps changing my desktop icon positions, seemingly randomly.
Sometimes only one icon will be somewhere else, sometimes all icons are scattered all over the place and other times desktop cannot display newly created files anymore without me having to manually click refresh (F5). Yes, I have to manually refresh the ActiveDesktop (!!!).
This has pretty much been going on since Windows 98 for me, with it getting much worse over the years.
Probably due to the use of different-resolution monitors and different DPI scalings, aswell as sometimes turning a monitor on and off.
They are not only poor programmers, but a threat to mental health.

Did you turn autoarrange off?

https://howtogeek.com/762816/...

just slowly gaslighting you to work down your sense of sanity over the years

theres no reason to use windows. Other than being forced by work

@joewilliams007 aand being held hostage because you're a gamer *silent cries*

@Demolishun thanks for the advise - yes i did.

yet windows starts putting new icons from the top left.

the ability not to define where exactly new icons will be placed is more than disturbing and i wonder why no more people have problems with this.

i mean, we probably got used to it. but its time to undo that and see with open eyes again how shitty windows and microsoft actually are and how much of a problem they are for the world.

@vlord proton gets you super far these days. Maybe not with triple A games that have weird anti cheats. But tbh, these are usually the games with lootboxes and other shit that suck anyways.

@joewilliams007 I cannot find an answer about Linux. Do you know if Linux ever solved the issue of chaining shared libraries? I had this issue 10 years ago when modding Oblivion. I could load the OBSE, but I could not load its plugins because of some shared library chaining issue. There was a max depth of how many shared libraries could be chained (one opening another). It was really obscure to find this info back then. I tried again today and can't find anything. If this limit still exists then modding of some games is a non starter in Linux. I think the limit was 1 or 2. Cannot remember. At the time I think I needed a plugin that could open another plugin. It would not do it.

@vlord I'm a gamer and moved onto Linux... uhhh... in 2018 I guess

seems fine

only thing I couldn't play is League of Legends but that's such a trash fire application. seems like the anti cheat would break it every time and I was too lazy to reinstall it every time I wanted to launch it

a lot of games also ran faster. I remember measuring my epeen against some people and despite my hardware being objectively worse I ran the same game we were playing better

I am a fan of life software though and not bloated trash fire garbage. I just get the skeevies if they waste too much horsepower

also yeah anticheat will bar you. but you don't want that virus shit on your system anyway