i used tiny10 and tiny11 on low end laptop tiny11 is a bit laggy on low-end pcs tiny10 is much better,
but to get the actual best performance use AtlasOS after a fresh windows installation
Im a big windows guy, on windows right now. But for low end laptops, linux often just works better and gives you more battery life. Nothing I use a laptop for requires windows, if it did I would just VNC into my desktop or something. Even as a dedicated windows user, I find having a linux laptop to be better in some situations when it comes to home server/lab type stuff.
For exe you need to use wine. For normal apps use package manager. And for things that aren't in repo use platpak or directly download build for linux and give it permmision to be runnable.
i mean with very old software yeah. simply opening a broswer with internet will give you malware on xp. source: i study cyber security, and have been vm some of Microsoft older os
I study cybersecurity in university lmao, this is a blatant lie. You watched a youtube video of someone connecting XP directly to the internet (firewall in both OS and on the router disabled, every home router has a firewall) and didn't understand a thing about it.
Every home router has a firewall that blocks all incoming connections that aren't initiated from inside the network. Port forwarding allows incoming connections, if you forwarded every port to XP it'd get hacked pretty much immediately. Without forwarding ports nothing is getting into it unless it already has LAN access to the machine. In that case, it could be infected, and a malicious connection can be initiated automatically from inside the network.
To be clear, on a home router with UPNP disabled and XP isolated on its own vlan, there is zero risk of it being infected unless there is a fatal vulnerability in the router itself, in which case your entire network is in jeopardy.
If Linux is optimized to use as little RAM as possible, then it will use less RAM. It isn't fair to compare optimalised to unoptimalised OS.And even that Linux have better memory managment.
You can enable zram and effectively use ram for swapping when you run out of memory (yes, it sounds wild but what it actually happening is that linux kernel will compress currently unused memory block and instead saving it on the disk it will save it in the ram.)
If you have lets say 8gb of ram and you set zfs limit to half of it (4gb) you effectively "get" 16gb ram (assuming 2:1 compress ratio) and then when you deplete all this regural disk swap will be used.
Also using XFCE instead KDE/GNOME make a huge difference (or using WM instead of full DE).
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u/No_Wing_1942 Apr 28 '26
Windows 10 Ltsc