School PCs is quite a broad range. Could be a failing district with 10 year old computers on 5400 rpm drives which a Linux machine would also run slowly on.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You underestimate just how crazy clean Linux is. For a while I ran Debian out of an USB 2.0 thumb drive on a machine that was already slow ten years prior – hardly a hickup. In-place updates didn't even take more than 15 minutes (which, considering how slow my storage was, is great).

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not underestimating. This dudes not even taking into account how shitty a school spinning disk drive can be with how many hours they are on, how cheap they are, how many times they've been written to, etc. Im IT at a school I know how bad they get.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I have Linux running on a 10 year old machine with 5400 rpm drives, and it does just fine streaming video to multiple TVs at once.. Helps that there are 5 of them configured as raid-5...

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, 2 weeks after that happened, I asked my teacher if I could install Linux onto the PC and they agreed. Went for a minimalist arch setup since that's what I'm familiar with already, and it worked fine. Updates were still somewhat slow but they'd only take around 1-2 minutes maximum, excluding the download times for packages, and it ran smoothly.

That being said, Windows 10 on that craptop was fine for browsing, and boot times weren't too bad, only taking 30s on average. It's just that updating the system and using VS (since we were forced to use it as IDE until I switched to Linux, at that point I just went with neovim) were two major pain points.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Great, now install Tiny11.

Which is a minimalist Windows 11, and see how much faster that runs as well.

Or did you think there was only one version of Windows OSes?