Foss software for everything that's a one click install got me. I'm surprised msft doesn't make Winget more visible
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I have shity low end laptop. It was fine for w10 at first but each update made it worse. I tryed cleaning, reinstall... But then I installed Mint. It was amazing from unusable to snappy. I still use it and it is enough computing for me (browsing, office, watching movies...)
A lot of the things i was doing on my pc were either done using wsl or a linux vm at some point, using windows mostly for gaming reasons. When i tried linux on bare metal again i had no issues running the games that i care about using proton or wine so i just stuck with it.
I switched because Windows 2000 was total garbage, and because Linux gave me actual programming tools. I was like a kid in a candy store. Suddenly I had all these amazing professional software packages, and scripting languages that weren't fucking garbage. I'm still WAY too good at DOS scripts. The number of years I wasted learning DOS. Fuck microsoft. I'm still a little mad.
Only real option if you want to tinker
Download a linux distro iso file
Burn iso to usb using rufus
Restart computer with usb plugged in
Get into bios by pressing your system's specified key to get into bios while booting
Go to the boot settings
Select your usb
Linux should pop up after a minute with install menu
If you configure the settings right, you can have a dual boot setup with both windows and linux
After linux is installed you no longer need the usb
The easiest way to try linux is to install it from the Microsoft App Store — not joking, windows officially supports running Linux now. Here’s a random tutorial: https://adamtheautomator.com/windows-subsystem-for-linux/
Because it was mandated by our communist party!