Performance comparisons: 12-year-old Dell XPS 8700 running @linuxmint? Blazing fast. ⚡
5-year-old i7 Precision on Win11? Sluggish as hell. 🐌
Meanwhile, my work Surface Pro laptop runs Win11 flawlessly. 🤷♀️
Funny how Win11 is essentially tuned for Microsoft's new Surface hardware — like macOS for Apple Silicon. For older x86 machines, Linux gives them a whole new lease of life. 💫
@1br0wn Love this! 💜 I'm on a similar path — slowly de-Windowsifying everything here too 😅
I’ve got @protonprivacy Unlimited and honestly? Worth every penny.
🛡️ Privacy-first E2EE email & calendar
☁️ Generous encrypted Drive
🔐 Excellent password manager
🌍 Best VPN I’ve used — all for just over £10/month.
Also self-hosting @nextcloud now for ultimate #FOSS flexibility 😆
If you haven’t already... might I tempt you to try @linuxmint? 👀💻
Laura Hargreaves 👩💻