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RE: Gridcoin Leisure Update 3.7.5.0 Released
Very strange @ivanviso while you say the Windows version is unstable, I have not found that to be the case at all ..
My Windows production client and my Windows node have both been running with complete stability since the previous update. I generally run them 24/7 365 and have continued to do this throughout this period.
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I would have to agree with @m3rocs1ty - I have not been experiencing any stability issues with the Windows wallet. I'm running Windows 10.
Well, i barely use windows, and definitively not the gridcoin wallet in them, but in reddit you find a lot of people complaining about it, so maybe it would be good to have an alternate version, just to see if it solves the problems.
I seriusly hate windows in that regard, everything it does, its done an odd way compared to every other OS .
Well that, in my opinion, is a crazy reply.
You barely use windows and do not use the gridcoin wallet in it. Yet you scour reddit and use that other people are having problems as your argument.
I personally installed Gridcoin back in Oct 2017 and NOT once had a problem with the wallet in Windows. I've upgraded when required with no issues. I've staked and mined, again with no issues what so ever.
IT is frustrating at times, because it doesn't really tell you what it is up to (in my opinion). However, it isn't buggy. Yes, new releases will always spring a bug, but not to the extent of your response.
Unfortunately, posts like yours put a negative spin on something that others, quite a lot of others, have had no problems with.
Just because you have a personal dislike of Windows, others dont. I personally use Mac OS, Linux and Windows. Each have their strengths and weaknesses. You need to understand how each operates and NOT have a bias against one.
I'm sorry, this isn't supposed to be an agressive response. I just find it very hard to understand your reply or reasoning here. If you could provide actual examples of your own problems, there are LOTS of people here and in reddit willing to help.
I'm just saying that people complain a lot about crashes. It seems like it's gotten better, but as windows visual c is significantly different from the Linux c libs, and the wallet is built with technology that is mostly native to Linux, it would not hurt to offer a version compiled with mingw, which is much similar to the Linux way and may improve stability for the people that complain, it's easy to do, I can do it in 15 minutes, but I don't have the ways to distribute it.
So your base assumption is that Visual C is the cause of instability problems? For which I've never experienced. Surely changing libraries would require a whole set of regression testing and checking across the window versions people have installed (i.e. win 7 and 10)?
It's good that you can get it recompiled, so clearly you can run the distro and capture the errors and then run your mingw version and then demonstrate why it should change?? This would then get the developers attention, would it not?
I'm still surprised the 'windows linked libraries' are going to make such a difference. The stability problems I assumed existed due to networking and connection issues (from what I've read till now).