Feel free to just delete the topic since I clearly misunderstood this forum. And do not want to waste anyone's time. Especially since it is obvious that any criticism of 2.0+ is not well received.
I'm going to be polite, move on. Win-7 has been dead since January 2020. Microsoft does not care what you dislike.
Essentially, Windows-11 is where you need to be and on hardware recent enough to support that OS. The old Windows-7 h/w simply does not have enough bandwidth/efficiency to deal with new software like ArduinoIDE 2.x.
I run IDE 2.x on Windows 11 with an 5 year old Dell Precision i7 with 16G RAM and SSD. The machine was originally purchased for Win-10. The IDE 2.x loadtime is not the fault of the Arduino programmers, rather it is the framework instantiation.
From GitHub:
The Arduino IDE 2.x is a major rewrite, sharing no code with the IDE 1.x. It is based on the Theia IDE framework and built with Electron. The backend operations such as compilation and uploading are offloaded to an arduino-cli instance running in daemon mode.
Personally, I find the Linux version is more nimble than Windows. But I replaced the old HP EliteBook i7 Linux machine with a Dell Precision i7 and 32G RAM running Windows-11 Pro. I run Ubuntu in a virtual machine using WSL. The experience very good.
If you like the ancient JAVA IDE on your old Win-7 machine, then just use it. You do not have to do anything you do not want to do, but please stop whining like a child over technological and architectural advancements that you do not wish to participate.
I just went through a real budget-busting exercise to update my old off-network Win-XP digital photography box to Windows-11: new Adobe Photoshop, new Pinnacle DVD authoring, new Dell mini-tower, new color printer because the old drivers were not Win-10/11 compatible.
Yes, it hurt the hobby budget severely.
But such things as upgrading software licenses and procuring newer hardware is just reality, no one likes it, but when one buys into a computer hobby, it is just the way it is.
Ray
(ex-MCSE)
I'm sorry if you were disappointed by Arduino IDE 2.x and by the discussion here @anon25927726. If you ever decide to give it another try, feedback is always welcome and we can definitely help you out with some of the things you mentioned in your post before you deleted it.
I think that you are exaggerating.
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