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I regularly support Windows users and when I do, I cringe at just how awful the experience is! (My daily driver for the last decade have been various flavours

I regularly support Windows users and when I do, I cringe at just how awful the experience is! (My daily driver for the last decade have been various flavours of linux) High end Windows 10/11 machines (like my Alienware I9 w/ 64GB mem + RTX4090) seem a bit sluggish. Low end machines with Windows are absolutely painful to use! I've install debian onto my fairly ancient Lenovo X201 Tablet and it is exceptionally snappy.

TacticalCoder 25d ago
> I've install debian onto my fairly ancient Lenovo X201 Tablet and it is exceptionally snappy. I'm running Debian since Debian 1.1 (1.1, not 11). My install has always been very lean: a minimal WM I love. Computers have only ever gotten fast and Linux more optimized. It's extremely snappy indeed and feels like it. The problem is what happens inside browsers: are great many websites are just lame. So many pointless connections to so many pointless "telemetry" services, trying to track your every single habit/clicks. Just open the dev tools and look at all the trafic exchanged: that's where the bloat is. The SV JavaScript "punch the monkey" ads bros at work.