I was always particularly fond of windows turning my laptop on, running updates, and then going into hibernation, which then caused a blue screen trying to come out of it.
The laptop had sleep and hibernation disabled, all of the wake-on-events and automatic updates were disabled as well. (It was an older cranky thing and deserved rest - or to be taken out back and shot.)
Yet, somehow it always turned on for update day, even after I blocked it from the internet via the router.
I enjoy the backpack detection mode they have on laptops to make sure it turns on, overheats, and drains the battery anytime you take it somewhere you’ll want to use it unplugged.
(It was an older cranky thing and deserved rest - or to be taken out back and shot.)
Or gifted something like GNU+Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, 9base, GNU+Ironclad, GNU(+Hurd), KolibriOS, etc, and given a new lease of life for another decade or two, and unlikely to ever suffer like it suffered under windows ever again…
No operating system will change your ancient laptop’s CPU to a more powerful and efficient one though. It’ll feel snappier to use because there are fewer background processes, but it won’t really be fast. Browsers will still be slow, so will code compilation, etc.
I was always particularly fond of windows turning my laptop on, running updates, and then going into hibernation, which then caused a blue screen trying to come out of it.
The laptop had sleep and hibernation disabled, all of the wake-on-events and automatic updates were disabled as well. (It was an older cranky thing and deserved rest - or to be taken out back and shot.)
Yet, somehow it always turned on for update day, even after I blocked it from the internet via the router.
I enjoy the backpack detection mode they have on laptops to make sure it turns on, overheats, and drains the battery anytime you take it somewhere you’ll want to use it unplugged.
Or gifted something like GNU+Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, 9base, GNU+Ironclad, GNU(+Hurd), KolibriOS, etc, and given a new lease of life for another decade or two, and unlikely to ever suffer like it suffered under windows ever again…
Oh absolutely. It’s running Ubuntu for a couple years now and it’s so much better.
No operating system will change your ancient laptop’s CPU to a more powerful and efficient one though. It’ll feel snappier to use because there are fewer background processes, but it won’t really be fast. Browsers will still be slow, so will code compilation, etc.