A Complaint for Linus

[swizeus]

Yesterday, I watched LTT Video in Vessel saying Linus is recommending Windows 10 upgrade

And I decided to go with it because it is recommended and Linus shows data that most of the case either the same or faster than Windows 8.1 with the same hardware. So it will be better right? WRONG!

 

Turns out I was too naive. New OS always promotes buying new hardware, or in some cases forces people to buy new hardware. I'm using an pretty old ThinkPad E420, though I have been using 7200rpm new harddrive (just bought a few months ago, because old drive has been stuttering) and I do have 6 GB of RAM. The deal breaker is the boot time took very long because I don't use SSD. Don't be fooled, Linus use the newest hardware to test, so it is fine and rather fast and optimize for new hardware, but not the old one. Boot time and start program is slow as hell, almost twice as Windows 8.1. Perhaps it is because of not doing clean install whatsoever, but the idea upgrading to Windows 10 to get faster is just wrong

 

You've been warned

[Arty]

user error?

I tested all my pcs are OBJECTIVELY faster 

my moms old notbook

my year old hp.

 

 

for people that upgraded correctly i have had 

0 Problems

faster

10/ 10 ign would recommend.

 

AND im already modding windows. no problems.

[thekeemo]

basically instant boot on standard HDD here

[Guest MinimalEffort]

Not sure how this is a comlaint, but alright I guess...

 

Try a clean install if you havent already. Trust me, it'll help

[Crowes]

I remember W8 being promoted to bring life back to PCs that had those huge-ass monitors from the naughties. Have you tried clean installing or reinstalling?

[Arty]

basically instant boot on standard HDD here

ikr its like 3-5 seconds for me. on my hdd.

[theereal]

 

Ive got a 7200rpm HDD and boot times are EXTREMELY fast, even on both my laptops one of which runs on a celeron and a 5400rpm HDD so no, Windows 10 DOES make boot times faster.

[givingtnt]

Yesterday, I watched LTT Video in Vessel saying Linus is recommending Windows 10 upgrade

And I decided to go with it because it is recommended and Linus shows data that most of the case either the same or faster than Windows 8.1 with the same hardware. So it will be better right? WRONG!

 

Turns out I was too naive. New OS always promotes buying new hardware, or in some cases forces people to buy new hardware. I'm using an pretty old ThinkPad E420, though I have been using 7200rpm new harddrive (just bought a few months ago, because old drive has been stuttering) and I do have 6 GB of RAM. The deal breaker is the boot time took very long because I don't use SSD. Don't be fooled, Linus use the newest hardware to test, so it is fine and rather fast and optimize for new hardware, but not the old one. Boot time and start program is slow as hell, almost twice as Windows 8.1. Perhaps it is because of not doing clean install whatsoever, but the idea upgrading to Windows 10 to get faster is just wrong

 

You've been warned

the only thing that is slow with me and windows 10. is the time it takes for my turn to arrive for the download.

if you have super oold hardware. why would you use a newer os

[BoredErica]

I tested Windows 10 vs 7 on my desktop and netbook. Windows 10 sucks up more CPU cycles on idle, causing it to be slightly slower. We're talking <4% once search service is turned off though. Booting is faster on my netbook on 10 but feels slower on my desktop (I measured the time on my netbook but didn't do it for my desktop).

[XTankSlayerX]

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Uhhh...

 

How's this Linus's fault?

 

Also how do new OS's promote buying new hardware? If you haven't upgraded since windows Vista then upgrading your PC along with Windows 10 is a good idea.

 

 

Have you installed all your drivers? seems like you might be missing some.

[EpicAdom]

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Your laptop is probably slow in the first place due to having the same windows install for some time. You could try doing a clean install.

[swizeus]

well, perhaps it is just a first time setup and first time boot...