I am more impressed you got windows 10 to work well on 8 year old computers ngl. I had an HP pavillion around that age and it had torturingly low startup speed.

Definetely try mint-cinnamon and mint-xfce4, latter one uses xfce4 which has very good performance.

A lot of experienced users will find linux run without bugs for them but that’s because it’s an OS that gets better as you learn more.

In my case battery life 2 hours on windows and 1.5 hours on linux. But once I past the skill-curve I tweaked it to be 6 hours because I knew how to find what caused the problem and fix it.

Either that or there is the IT-guy effect going on where once an experienced user shows up the aura just makes computers work normal again lmao.