The "performance" of the OS is primarily a function of how much bloat/spyware is running in the background. With Linux - there is none - and you are in control. With Windows 10, you can go through a lot of trouble to get rid of most of the bloat, but the next time you "upgrade" - it will all come back.JayM wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 8:22 pm Half of the slowness is probably due to all the OEM bloatware if it's the original installation. I used to have an ultrabook, 6th gen (Skylake) Core i7 mobile CPU, 12GB DDR3-1600 RAM, 1TB HDD and Windows 10. Like you, I fired it up to have a look-see prior to installing Linux (Mint.) Like you I was negatively impressed with Windows' performance. Around 10 months later I decided to sell it so I put Win10 back on it (because that's what people expect, and yes, I was tempted to leave Mint on it.) This time though it was a plain-vanilla Win10 Pro installation without all of Asus's garbage. It was a little bit slower than Mint but not very much, and very much faster than the OEM installation of Win10 Home Edition was when I got the computer.
Again - Why?
I am happier with my Linux apps than anything I ever had on Windows 7 which I used for a decade.