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Why I think Windows 10 is killing perfectly good older machines
I keep my 2012 HP desktop running for basic word processing and email, and last month Windows forced a feature update that turned it into a slow, stuttering mess. After 3 attempts to roll it back, I finally installed Linux Mint instead, and now the thing runs faster than it ever did with Windows 7. Microsoft just doesn't care about hardware that's more than 5 years old, plain and simple. Has anyone else switched to Linux on old computers and seen a big improvement?
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jamesmason1d ago
Did Microsoft ever think about those of us who still think 8 gigs of RAM is basically a supercomputer? I put Mint on my old laptop from 2010 and it finally boots up faster than my morning coffee brews.
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torres.drew1d ago
My old ThinkPad T410 from 2011 had 4 gigs of RAM and a spinning hard drive. Windows 7 got so slow after a few years that opening a browser took a full minute. I threw Ubuntu on it and suddenly that same laptop could play YouTube videos and have five tabs open without choking. It really makes you wonder why Microsoft keeps pushing these memory hog updates when there are millions of perfectly good machines out there that just need a lighter operating system. The environmental aspect bothers me too - all that e-waste from perfectly functional hardware that companies decide is obsolete.
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