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I cant put my finger on it but linux does not feel as snappy as windows. I use Linux 100% now but when I am fixing something on a windows machine I notice a certain smoothness that I don't notice on linux.
Interesting because I've had the opposite problem historically. Windows always seemed to be doing random shit in the background, doing what? I can't tell you but it always seemed to be using the disk or CPU to do some background process, and it always happened, every day at random times oops disk churn. You'll notice it the most with a regular hard drive because it's slow and makes noise when its being accessed (vs. an ssd which is silent)
Windows 10 used 10-30% of my pc's resources and linux uses around 1%. There is plenty more ram/cpu/gpu if linux wants it.