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Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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That doesn't sound like a tough choice at all...
seriously i just deleted windows and put mint on my laptop (which is only like from 2020ish) and it runs better than it ever did on windows
Yeah, both my Linux PC's probably wouldn't even run Win 10, let alone Win 11. As long as they work, pretty much any PC from the last decade can still run any distro and be sufficient to do any kind of productivity workload.
Can confirm with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs my previous W11 install, it’s astonishing that a company with Microsoft’s resources can’t make an OS that runs as smoothly and efficiently as the open-source alternatives. Is it all just because of telemetry and whatever else Windows is phoning home with?
As a company, Microsoft doesn’t reward anyone for improving the performance of the OS. That should be enough of an explanation 😆.
I think it's just that they don't care about performance. It's been the case for a while that typically games run faster on Linux through WINE/Proton despite using a translation layer.
And there's a bunch of background services taking up memory and CPU on Windows that are hard to turn off.