imi wrote on 2021-06-17, 12:50:
SPBHM wrote on 2021-06-16, 13:34:the start menu is something I haven't really used much in a very long time outside of typing something using the search
well, that's because they made it pretty useless to be used it for anything else, while requiring you to use the search to be even able to find anything.
remember those times where you could start a program from the start menu just from muscle memory in a split second because you knew exactly where to click and nothing changed position constantly without ever touching your keyboard?
Remember? I still have my start menu set up like that.
Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-06-17, 12:49:
For me, it was mostly privacy concerns and updates which randomly break things that made me switch over to linux permanently. I had been dual-booting Windows 7 and Arch Linux for 5 years before that.
Windows 7 isn't much better in the privacy department. Any telemetry Microsoft wants will have been backported to Windows 7 via updates. If you don't have any updates, well that's a privacy nightmare as your privacy can be entirely compromised by visiting the wrong web page.
I will also say, if your problems with Windows 10 privacy is something you heard, not something you experienced yourself, then do remember people hate Windows 8 and 10. They will exaggerate, or even lie, to make it seem worse than it is.
Of course, ultimately, Microsoft doesn't care about your privacy (and neither does Apple, they'll pretend to as long as it helps their sales of course). If privacy is a concern, Linux is really the only option, but the OS is still pretty far down on the list of privacy concerns most people should think about.
Discrete_BOB_058 wrote on 2021-06-17, 13:25:
Recently I was playing Just Cause 4 and the memory usage was over 8.4GB, used Mem Reduct to clear RAM and usage went to 2.4GB., lower than what Win10 used for me without any task running and here it was running a game.
RAM is meant to be used, that 8.4GB would either
1) Mean the next time you re-launch Just Cause 4 it would launch much faster because it's still in RAM
2) Be instantly relinquished when another application asks for it.
Don't use memory clearing utilities without any idea what memory is used for. Most likely you're just making your computer perform worse overall, so you can look at a smaller number in that one screen.