…and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I’m mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
…and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I’m mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
I am surprised it’s snappy since pop_os is one of the heavier distros but it’s still better than windows 11 I guess lol.
I am actually curious how much the speed changed exactly now are there any experiences like “it used to take 20 minutes to boot on windows” and so on?
Is actually kind of sad. Microsoft Windows does have a really stable and performant core. It has some bad decisions made years ago that legacy compatibility holds them back on, but even so it’s amazing it works as well as it does.
But they ruin all that by piling on the BS literally nobody wants but they have decided you must have.
Its kind of good in a way. No one would be able to compete with them if they didnt sabotage their own product.
Well, the PC is an older one and hadn’t been in use in years, so it has HDDs (a small SSD for the OS), was running windows 8 still, and I think has an unusual amount of DDR3 RAM. Maybe 24gb?
It was taking 5-10min to boot (the first boot took 20, and I was worried it was dead). When I was transferring files off of it before formatting everything, it was so slow that I had to leave it on overnight. Basic tasks were hanging. Just imagine your typical end of life, bloated Windows PC that hadn’t had a fresh reinstall in a while.
Now, Pop!_OS boots in a matter of seconds, minimal delay in opening apps/moving files/downloading stuff/etc. It could probably be faster, but it feels like it’s brand new relative to how it was functioning before.
Oh geez, I completely forgot the feeling of installing a fresh new windows on a comp (like windows XP, hung onto a version called XP-black for the longest). Now adays it’s more about removing crap windows installs so it runs smoother. I wish I felt that way about linux, it is faster but I’m always jumping between distros and feels more like a test run to see if I like it.
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon, which is the main full-featured flavor that basically looks like the win10 desktop at first startup.
It runs like greased lightning compared with Windows on the same machine, or any windows install I’ve used recently.
That was one of my favorite things about switching to FOSS in general. It is made by people who care about it being good at it’s purpose, and probably use it themselves. Compare that to commercial software, where the list of stakeholders in major decisions is a mile long, and the primary stakeholders that everybody wants to please (shareholders) are often not associated in any way with the creation or the use of the program.
Well, my KDE-based distro on my 10-year-old cheapo (350€) laptop feels snappier than Win11 on my brand new 1500€ work-laptop.
Admittedly, there are some company specific things like security scanner apps (and the mandatory MS-Office behemoth…) that are not present on the Linux-machine, but it is still a 20-core/64GByte high end machine behaving more sluggish than a 2-core/8GByte totally outdated potato…
So, I am not really surprised about OP’s snappiness observation.