The biggest performance boost from an upgrade in the last two decades was switching from a Western Digital VelociRaptor HDD to a Samsung 840EVO SATA SSD. That was going from 6ms to 0.06 ms random access latency.

The performance boost from switching from Windows to Linux wasn't perceivable even on Gentoo where I literally compiled for the exact hardware, I had and used a custom debloated monolithic kernel. But it got me a massive boost in user agency and freedom of choice.
You can't beat two orders of magnitude reaction latency reduction with an OS change. Windows is bloated. But it's not that bloated (at least Windows XP, 7, and 10 weren't; didn't try 11).
I play on Gentoo btw.

Hand to God I wish I got into Linux 6 years ago before I bought my current gaming laptop. I would have been perfectly glad to keep rocking my old Lenovo, I loved that little beast of a laptop.

My ThinkPad be like:

• Core i7
• 16 GB RAM
• 256 GB SSD
• Manjaro Linux
• 4th gen Intel platform

Yeah bro 12yo refurbished MSI laptop with Mint+Plasma keeps chugging along

I pretty much only make it do documents and YouTube but still

Can I request something here (it's off-topic) if it's okay ? Can someone recommend me videos of people debunking & exposing Bryan Lunduke for the fraud that he is ??

dat ssd is doing a lot of the liftin here hehe

_ Linux T
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