I whole-heartedly concur ,, with, a similar finding¬
In my First Year's experience ~with this laptop (Toshiba Notebook)
Microsoft attempted to brainwash-me, into believing, their 'claim'
~that their EDGE browser "
is/was however-many % faster, than Chrome"
*This, was not my-experience in-practice
I'd had Linux based (Ubuntu) Zorin as an operating system on my Dell Tower
and, whether my absence from-Windows after the fall, of XP Pro and some
personal acclimatisation / practice in 'open-source' now underlines my 'opinion'
I cannot really elucidate
Windows 10, (fully updated ~anniversary/developer) 4GBs Processor
4Gbs Ram, 1Tb memory and it is so
slow (?) Let me rephrase that, '
S L O W'
Oh yes, and there were those app's I used in XP, that would no-longer run
in Windows 10
At that time, my loss of the free app '
Paint.Net' (PaintDOTnet)
truly felt like, I was being robbed. The substitute that I chose GIMP, was
by comparison ~no comparison at-all
Windows 10, for all of it's "shortfallings / shortcomings"
enables my continued-use of my photo-image restorer
Hooray....
They say "
a bad workman always blames his-tools"
But, while better-tools may enable, a better 'finish' to be produced
the tools themselves,
need_
to be appropriately-used and maintained ~just to remain consistently 'useful'
There was a time in my second-year, of Windows 10 OEM
Windows 8.1 came installed, on this laptop (which was NEW to me)
and I immediately-upgraded during Anniversary Update to Windows 10
[Yeah, let's rock n roll with 'progress']
No laughing matter
With all these optical fibres and massive bandwidth
and memory-usage and storage and I must not exclude
that
shadow memory space that our computers so often depend upon
(for speed ?)
Shadow RAM is a copy of Basic Input/Output Operating System (BIOS) routines
from read-only memory (ROM) into a special area of random access memory(RAM)
so that they can be accessed more quickly.
Access in shadow RAM is typically in the 60-100 nanosecond range
whereas ROM access is in the 125-250 ns range.
Windows 10 seemed 'DEAD IN THE WATER'
To the time, that I bought the laptop (2015) I had 'managed' via open-source
ZORIN
I couldn't fault it, it was Windows like, in operation and comparatively-faster
than XP... I could pass from page to site-page and from tab to tab, as fast as
or, faster, than
turning the page of a book, by-hand
No, I do not have a rant coming-on _LOL
But I do have some 'gut-feelings' concerning 'some' operating-systems
It's footprint on a hard drive, is not-inconsiderable
[
compared-with Windows Millenium Edition 2000AD / XP Professional]
"It's safer, when it is '
Automatically-Updated' (nothing to oversee)"
^^Suggests the updater can read your update-status
and insert-code within the operating-system sat at that IP
I looked at the
update-history of my laptop the other day
and saw so-many SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED updates
that I don't wonder the poor-laptop struggles at times,like it does
WHY ? do updates being downloaded and installed
seem to take so much time to complete, and can take so-long
that it's as if
I am reinstalling the entire operating system from start to finish (?)
My thoughts on that matter, could be termed 'fallacious'
