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Take a windows computer and don't have it managed by a company. Manage it yourself. It will slow down over time as the registry and other shit get gunked up over time. I run freebsd, Linux, windows, and mac here and I can tell you for sure after a length of time there's no speeding up windows. You just need to reinstall it.
That hasn't really been my experience. The computers I own have had windows for multiple years. I tend to install it when first setting up and never again.
The work laptop has good specs but trash performance from day one that I got it. I had a laptop that I gave away that was much lower spec than the work laptop and it ran better in every way, probably because it had none of the bloat.
Windows in my opinion has huge issues in other areas but performance hasn't been one of them in the last 15 years for me, probably in part because I avoid running any heavy services in the background.
I guess we need to define performance. The OS operates slowly over time. Likely you'll notice no difference playing your games or something.
If I can't notice a difference while playing games, web browsing, video and photo editing, and working in blender and cad software, what is left to define slow operation? It operating slow should be something noticeable for it to be an issue.
It used to be a problem in windows 98 days, I remember as much. And it is a problem on my work computer but that is day one config from the company, not over time degradation.
Like I said, I dislike windows and it's dark pattern bullshit as much as the next guy, but performance has not been one of my issues with it on my personal devices.
That doesn't happen since Windows 98 days, lol.
No, it still happens. Unless you don't do anything on your computer. If you boot it up and read a spreadsheet and shut it down and do this for 10 years, sure.
Except that it doesn't.