> They are slow because Windows got heavier while the hardware stayed the same.

Heavier and then full of spyware, pardon, telemetry.

It's not just old hardware: I've got a laptop, some Lenovo thing, I bought used from a friend (as part of a pack with a NUC etc.). It had Windows 11 on it: I was Windows-free since many years, decades even already. So I got to "experiment" Windows 11 a bit again.

I don't understand how people can use a computer that does so many heavy updates, for a start.

Then Windows is simply dogshit slow as TFA point out.

It's not a beefy laptop: it's got only 6 GB of RAM (6 is a weird number but it is what it is) but...

It works totally fine under Linux (actually I'm typing this from the couch on this little laptop). Sure, my "24 GB of RAM" laptop is better, but with 6 GB this laptop under Linux definitely works. It runs OrcaSlicer fine, etc.

It's not just on older hardware that Linux is much better than Windows: on modern hardware too.