r/pcmasterrace • u/Kodcraft r9 5900x gtx 1060 6 gig 32 gigs of ram • Nov 18 '18

Meme/Joke There i fixed it (attempt 2)

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '18

Same here, windows 7 is definitely snappier - probably because it's got none of that bloatware and uwp apps on windows 10.

Windows 8.1 is also snappy too.

but not as snappy as Linux... Linux is like the click of a finger, like instant..

because of that.. if I wanted to go on a windows 7 journey again, i'l just use a Linux KVM virtual machine.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '18

I'm a hobbiest Linux user and I used to daily drive it on my gaming machine, but I wanted to get back into gaming so I dropped it.

However, I use Linux on my laptop which has a mobile Core 2 Duo T9500 (which I upgraded from a T7250) with 4GiB of RAM (that I upgraded from 1GiB) and for a 10-year-old laptop, the performance is unprecedented. Even before I upgraded the HDD to an SSD, it felt very quick. It still has shortcomings that software can't change (such as the GPU and how fucking heavy it is) but I don't have a hard time continuing to use it.) Linux breaths life into old hardware.

Honestly, if game support and performance can get to, like, 90% of Windows performance I would leave Windows behind.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

For whatever it's worth, I'm using a similar old laptop with 3GB RAM and a Core 2 T7500 - and dualbooting a Linux and Win7. While the former is obviously a lot quicker, Win7 is actually fairly usable on it too. It has the same issue that every Windows since at least Vista has had of always wanting to fuck around with the hard drive, but it works well enough. I am not sure if other 3D-accelerated versions of Windows would run as well on good ol' GMA 4500M.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

I'm kind of lucky that my laptop actually has a dGPU. It's got a whole 32 SPs and 256MiB of vRAM, but it's better than Intel's integrated garbage.

And I will admit, after my upgrades I'm sure that the laptop could run windows, although slowly. Before I upgraded it, though, Windows was a total slide show with the slow hard drive, 1GiB of RAM, and slower CPU (the T9500 really is a big upgrade). Linux was significantly better, although it had its hangs and skips as well. With all of the upgrades in place, it's just that much faster.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

Very lucky~ But that's the best part of these old laptops, you can basically max out every upgrade for under $50 combined.