Buying a windows laptop these days seems like putting your hand in an Alligator Gar filled bog
(also see the other post about the Synaptics driver)
And restoring from the OEM copy is no guarantee it will be clear of all the preinstalled crap
(also see the other post about the Synaptics driver)
And restoring from the OEM copy is no guarantee it will be clear of all the preinstalled crap
All apps includes IE, Edge, svchost etc.
"netstat -nbt" is the command I used to monitor all outgoing connections. Anything I don't like, I block it with firewall.
Windows 10 is usable after that. CPU usage go from normally 30-50% to 5-15%. The Laptop CPU fan doesn't kick in anymore.
Windows also doesn't wake up in the middle of night and doing P2P network to provide network bandwidth to update my neighbor's computer anymore.
It is even more stable and faster than the latest MacBookPro I used at work.
If someone know a similar method to block Mac's App's outgoing TCP connections, I love to know more.
Still, the OS is cleaner than what you usually get with the default OEM install.
interesting that a significant (supposed) advantage of separating the software company (e.g. MS, or Google) from the hardware company (e.g. Lenovo, Samsung) -- of making the software generic and capable of running on a broad universe of devices -- also became a powerful source of FUD.
For the issues I commonly have (wifi, audio, video), I don't see how throwing more power at them would really help anything
Default Ubuntu has been sluggish for me for a while. Install something more lightweight like xfce and Linux becomes way faster, even on older hardware.