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Ahh I wish I could keep doing that. Just yesterday windows decided to update itself in the middle of the night. Now my laptop is acting really slow even though no process is hogging CPU or ram. Tried removing the update but it's only slightly better. I'm in the middle of resetting it as I type this comment.

It got so bad that a couple of import statements in my jupyrr notebook cell took a minute to finish executing. It used to take barely a couple of seconds just yesterday. If resetting does not work I'll have to try a fresh install. If that doesn't work too it's Linux for me I guess.

The only reason I use windows is cause I play games and I am pretty used to it's UI. Guess it's almost the end of the road with this OS for me

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Gaming on linux has come a long way.

Depending on the game, there's still that classic linux hassle (aka series of hacks you can impress your friends with) that are needed to get some games working, but the number of games supported and working without the hassle is honestly surprisingly good imo. The typical ones that you can expect to cause a headache are the always on live service games with heavy handed DRM.

Depending on the game and its DRM, the SteamOS has been great. A couple of symlinks are required to run some stuff but proton pretty much bridges the divide.

Which games? Have a gander at ProtonDB or WineDB for your regulars. KDE is pretty close to Windows if you want to transfer your knowledge.

If the times comes, please avoid Ubuntu - Nobara (Fedora + gaming tweaks) might be a good choice for you. Debian would be another good choice as a general purpose desktop, and many Ubuntu tutorials/Q&A would work just fine with it. Garuda Arch-based if you want street cred, and uses KDE by default.

Thanks for the suggestion. For now resetting worked. The main reason I haven't switched yet is mostly because I didn't want to go through the hassle of dealing with uefi

When has UEFI been an issue? Been switching between distributions often and it was never an issue

I've been using Linux for decades, and I'd regularly attempt to play games every few years.

The most recent time, I was shocked how good it was (with Steam & Proton). The only games I found that didn't work were due to DRM and anti-cheating software.

And I have a 2014 desktop PC and did a full reinstall when Windows 10 released in 2015. There have been issues but nothing a windows & driver update + reboot coulnt solve.

>Now my laptop is acting really slow even though no process is hogging CPU or ram

Have you rebooted?

Is it thermal throttling?

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