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It depends on how far down the rabbithole you go.
I switched to Linux 27 years ago. My wife asks me to help her with her Windows computer every now and then, and I can't really do it for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure is in the risk zone.
similar here. im still 'new' to linux but have to use windows for my apprentice. also my father uses windows. so often i have to click a button multiple times, ads, or window not responding, ads, sometimes its slow af. did I already mention ads?
Maybe you should use something faster than a potato as a computer. 😂
If you're capable of installing Linux and getting a productive desktop experience with it I'm sure as shit you are also capable of disabling a few toggles under Windows.
Potatoes are free hardware though? You can grow them yourself, study the source code, make changes to it and release it for others to use. Pretty sure you can't do that with most modern computers
i love that comment😂
A modern distro with let's say GNOME won't also run decently on a potato...
my laptop is pretty good, its just windows using much resources. yeah i'd be able to but i only use it like 3h per week for one buggy app. its not worth it
I highly doubt it. Not saying that Windows is good, but my i7 8th gen with 16GB of RAM boots Windows 10 Enterprise (with the usual crap disabled) into the desktop faster than the time it takes to post. Info here and here. Frankly Debian with GNOME doesn't boot much faster than Windows on that laptop.
my laptop probably has very similar specs to your laptop. also, windows just uses more computing resources than linux in general.
i dont care about if its few seconds faster at booting or has few percents more resources availabe after hours of configuring.
all i need for my apprenticeship is just a windows laptop to work with office365 and a few specific apps, which dont need full resources. but it has to be windows because of domain policy from ADDS.
my apprentice will end in a few weeks and since i wont need these apps anymore tomorrow in a week, ill delete the windows partitions from my laptop.
id appreciate you helping me and others with articles how to get a bit faster windows system, if id asked for it, but i didnt.
Again, I'm not saying Windows is good.
I'm saying your statement was an over exaggeration and yes Windows by default has too much crap but it can be disabled as documented.
Simply that.
I switched 4 years ago and I experience the same. But to be fair, I also use an atypical setup designed for efficiency, so basically the opposite of windows in every aspect.
This is not what they are asking. They just want to know if they can revert their setup if they end up not wanting to keep Linux.
this guy uses Arch, btw