I don’t quite follow what you’re saying here but I can say without hesitation any version of Linux versus any windows version of the same era have been night and day for me performance wise. And I’ve been trying the two since windows 98 days.
It sounds like you have a lot of experience with running out of memory that I don’t have. I’m curious – how much ram do you have in the laptop you switched to windows? I don’t think I’ve experienced running out of memory recently. Been running Linux for like 3 years now and I’ve always felt every possible aspect is far snappier. Regarding ops comment about windows being the ram problem, I think they just were referring to it using a lot of ram, which it does. You’re calling it a few Mb and that’s just not accurate. I can’t say for sure what exact difference it was for me, but years ago I compared windows 10 to pop os. I think the difference was not far from a GB. And we can split hairs about what specifically occupies ram. Services, kernel, third party apps. The fact is that windows culture is different in a very bad way. You have to opt out of apps running on startup constantly, manually checking settings under an “advanced” tab often… I vastly prefer the culture of bloat being opt-in in almost every case. There are dozens of reasons I prefer Linux but the fact that it just runs faster without effort specifically to make that happen, is atop the list.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t quite follow what you’re saying here but I can say without hesitation any version of Linux versus any windows version of the same era have been night and day for me performance wise. And I’ve been trying the two since windows 98 days.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It sounds like you have a lot of experience with running out of memory that I don’t have. I’m curious – how much ram do you have in the laptop you switched to windows? I don’t think I’ve experienced running out of memory recently. Been running Linux for like 3 years now and I’ve always felt every possible aspect is far snappier. Regarding ops comment about windows being the ram problem, I think they just were referring to it using a lot of ram, which it does. You’re calling it a few Mb and that’s just not accurate. I can’t say for sure what exact difference it was for me, but years ago I compared windows 10 to pop os. I think the difference was not far from a GB. And we can split hairs about what specifically occupies ram. Services, kernel, third party apps. The fact is that windows culture is different in a very bad way. You have to opt out of apps running on startup constantly, manually checking settings under an “advanced” tab often… I vastly prefer the culture of bloat being opt-in in almost every case. There are dozens of reasons I prefer Linux but the fact that it just runs faster without effort specifically to make that happen, is atop the list.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago