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>Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows. What do you mean?
by tester756 3y ago
>Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows.
What do you mean?
- trealira 3y agoI don't know exactly what the OP was trying to say, but in my experience, Windows runs noticeably slowly and is sluggish compared to Linux on the same hardware. I have a Skylake CPU and 16GB of RAM, too; it's not just a crappy netbook. I dual boot my laptop with Windows 11 and Linux with GNOME. In Windows, just opening the Settings app takes a few seconds: 1 for the window to actually open, and the rest of the time loading the actual UI (since at first it's just a blank window). Opening applications takes longer. I can open fewer tabs in the web browser before the machine starts to lag. Reading and writing files is slower. (I recall reading that NT made different tradeoffs compared to Linux regarding file I/O and starting processes that made them slower, but the benefits to the tradeoffs they made aren't apparent to me in my usage.) Running Linux with GNOME (typically said to be bloated compared to other DEs or standalone WMs) is much snappier in all these cases.