I'd been a Visual Studio user for I think over a decade, and was really, really sick of listening to my laptop fans whining the whole time, and frequent freeze-ups. Every new version promised better performance, and never delivered - VS's poor (and unreliable) performance is the main thing that made me try Rider, and what performance revelation it was!
I've used VS with ReSharper for many years, because ReSharper adds so much to it
That said, before I pulled the trigger and purchased a Rider license, I tried running VS without ReSharper. While it certainly was definitely faster, more responsive and used less memory, I still didn't find it as snappy as Rider. It also still had my laptop fans whining, and occasionaly became completely unresponsive.
It's a real shame - Visual Studio is without doubt an excellent IDE, but performance and reliability issues have plagued it since forever. I really wish a serious effort would be made to address these.
