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Re:Reasons to Abandon Windows for Linux by fxbl0i on Sunday April 07, 2019 @10:23AM (#19596924)
It's probably your IO, not your CPU.
Re:Reasons to Abandon Windows for Linux by sofaofthedamned on Sunday April 07, 2019 @10:38AM (#19597015)
It's not my IO, i've got 2 NVME Samsung 970 SSDs in there. In Linux it runs like a dog with its nuts on fire.

I have a calendar entry each week to dual-boot into Win 10 'cos otherwise when I need to do work in there the thing is completely pegged. Tried this yesterday - first time in 2 weeks - and the desktop became unresponsive after ~20 secs. Copying files over the network randomly failed and I couldn't press [Win] to get to the start menu.

Windows updates are a tyre fire. This isn't to mention the number of times it's automatically rebooted me on my work laptop.My wife's mother has a Win 10 laptop she logs into into probably once every 2 weeks to work on a Google Doc. Her internet is terrible, but it's unusable for her with WU trying to eat her cpu and download a couple of gig of updates.

Why shouldn't I get her a Chromebook? And why shouldn't I use Linux on mine when it's a million times better?