It is bloated af and fails, in terms of speed, even at basic web browsing. I have tried multiple browsers like bloatfox, brave(unironically), chromium and edge. All of them are slow af.
I have been thinking about three possible solutions: 1. Instaling Ubuntu The problem is that she is extremely against learning anything new and pretty much against any OS which is not Windows. 2. Downgrading to win 8.1 or 7 3. Trying somehow making win10 less of a bloated shit
This is good advice, she'll probably agree to update to windows 10 anyway the moment microsoft serves her a pop-up
Angel Jenkins
What is she on?
I assumed 10, popups aren't really given anymore, maybe in 2021 for win7 at EOL.
Daniel Martin
>Clean install OS >HDDs are garbage slow, use SSD >at the very least 4GB RAM, ideally 8GB for completely unhampered daily use
Gabriel Myers
I found debian ok for my mum. I just need to teach her how to edit videos with openshot, or I think she alone can use it idk
Camden Watson
Windows 10 should have reset feature that should basically uninstall everything. Start fresh or something. I have never used it but my understanding is that it should be almost the same as reinstalling Windows. Alternatively use media creation tool and reinstall Windows 10.
Also does the laptop have an ssd? If it doesn't then absolutely get one, Samsung evo ssds for example are insanely cheap right now.
Noah Campbell
i keep clicking on your gay thread because of your jexebel
Robert Jackson
>Samsung evo ssds for example are insanely cheap right now >still more than twice the price of a good 7200RPM WD Black HDD of the same capacity fucking kikes, I swear
Bentley Moore
They're also more than twice the speed of a WD Black too.
Fair point, you get what you pay for. But they're still twice the price of a good HDD.
Jace Russell
Windows have some notorious ram-hogging process that you can disable. Google ot but I remember the one that harasses you to install skype is one of them. Other option is to instal zorin or mint mate and use the windows theme, they are problably easier to use that the mess of windows 10
Christopher Roberts
If they were only twice the price I'd be enjoying a 4TB SSD right now for $250
Levi Brooks
You know what else is faster than spinning rust? $30 SSDs. You know what's actually insanely cheap? $30 SSDs. Unless you need insane amounts of speed, you're an idiot for buying an Evo drive at this point. And even if you need speed, you're still an idiot if you buy a SATA SSD.
Jace Stewart
>guy leg
Jaxson Wood
does she have a dick?
Charles Rogers
Install mint with cinnamon, put a big ass Google Chrome icon in the desktop and she'll be fine.
Aiden Perry
install windows 7 and use waterfox
Justin Adams
Probably won't do much of a difference for a new computer. When my family has bought computers in the same price range as OP, which are also laggy from start with win 10, I haven't noticed much difference from doing what you listed. It's a real shame that you have to spend close to 1k for a functional normie computer.
Tyler Cruz
you literally just fresh install and swap for ssd
Asher Bailey
Install ssd and clean Win 10 install or (K)ubuntu
Wanna see a vid of you installing gentoo on your thinkpad
Brandon Foster
if you're installing ubuntu, don't go for the standard version with GNOME 'cause it's crap, go for Kubuntu instead
Juan Collins
Install Arch + i3
Juan Nelson
Install Mint and say it's a lightweight theme for Windows 7. She'll never know the difference.
Had the same issue with a new 510 about 1yr ago. Switched out the hdd for an ssd. Put the hdd in a caddy and swap-out the cd-rom. Reinstalled W10 and worked perfect, still a decent second laptop; No W10, but Slackware now.
Asher Roberts
If you do a clean install of either 8.1 or 10 it'll still be way faster than 7 on low power devices.. I had an old netbook originally came with vista, and then installed 7. Eventually i installed 8 and later 10. The improvement in performance was drastic. 8.1 and 10 are better for low power processors. This takes into account the very base os, with nothing else installed.
Julian Clark
If that's ujishima or whatever, no
Mason Price
>programming legs
Xavier Richardson
>still denying the truth >still trying to conceal his homosexuality the absolute state of ameritards
James Barnes
i've got an old laptop with an amd a6-5350m and it's fine with win10. no ssd either, 8gb ram, just have to make do with this for a while.
get revocleaner to help deal with uninstalling crap, disable windows antivirus (it seriously eats performance doing anything on my shitty dual core), and get ublock origin for edge browser. edge generally works better on shittier hardware compared to other browsers and actually has addons
John Watson
cute boy :3
Josiah King
meant revo uninstaller, it's a great program to make sure shit is gone when uninstalled
