Stay with Windows 10 to reinstall it, or switch over to Windows 11 (PC is fully compatible)?

[bingbongbangbung]

I've had my gaming laptop since January 2020 and the past half year, it's been bugging out on me and slowing down in all sorts of ways. I can't exactly afford to buy a system that would surpass my current PC in all metrics, since that's exactly what I'd need and want in order to fulfill my wants in gaming and content creation, along with my needs in programming and AI (for my startups). I was thinking maybe instead of reinstalling Windows 10 and thus having reinstall all third party software, how about I switch over to Windows 11 before the security updates of 10 are discontinued and not have to reinstall anything?

I am aware that certain programs will probably either stop working unless I rely on extreme configs, mods, workarounds, etc., and also the new GUI will piss me off and also make me more happy too. I do have my stuff backed up through multiple cloud sources along with an external hard drive, but my internal SSDs are fine too. I would make the switch to Linux, but my PC uses Nvidia GPU and while I know that Proton, Wine, and DXVK exists, I don't wanna have to deal with that for now; not to mention the fact that my laptop has certain proprietary features like keyboard backlight and fan software that might not work in Linux.

Do Absolutely Nothing & Watch Laptop Die Out

Reinstall Windows 10 But Also Reinstall Software

Switch Over To Windows 11 But Get New Problems

[RavVid]

You can pretty much expect driver issues with linux and proprietary hardware I'd think and completely understand your reluctance.

Reinstalling windows has consistently given me better restored performance in the past but that was with HDD installations so maybe not with SSD. You could try some of the performance tuning tools and see if they do anything for you as a first step but I never got great joy from them.

Have you checked what tasks are running when you have slow downs? Network activity? Since you are considering re-installation and hence re-installation of software you use, you could consider de-installing third party software, then re-assess and reinstall the software you do want. There is a lot of crap software out there.

[bingbongbangbung]

The slowdowns I get are usually when I'm on battery or doing stuff involving high bandwith

[RavVid]

Don't have any thoughts on why being on battery would affect other than processing speed is set lower to reduce power consumption. That can be significant so something to check.

Posting events and interrupts might be an effect under high bandwidth. It is a crappy way of doing it but I have seen Linux setting timers assuming an event will happen within an interval; possibly parts of windows does too. The result can be work is redone over and over There is a possibility of ungraceful degradation if utilization is excessive.

Capacity planners would aim for no more than 70% utilization for mid-range (linux, Windows). Even mainframes can do crazy shit if driven hard enough.

In your high bandwidth work is it a lot of small packages of information (which can't be changed) or large file transfers and maybe larger frames could help.

If virtual memory is driven too hard ungraceful degradation happens. More swap space can help or more real memory so you don't swap, if you can extend. Swap space should be dynamically managed but maybe the OS can't get enough - there should be settings that can be twiddled.

Just trying to bounce some thoughts in case they can help. There is no reason there is only one problem. I have seen an application be CPU bound, IO bound, memory bound, and network bound all at the same time.

Given what you have said I am not so convinced re-installing would help.

[Jessica405]

I have never had a problem with drivers in Ubuntu from 12.04 to 20.04. Everything works out of the box.

[bingbongbangbung]

@Jessica405 maybe you were using a desktop

[Jessica405]

Destop and laptop. A home brewed desktop. An HP laptop.

[bingbongbangbung]

@Jessica405 ok what HP laptop? there's many different lineups

[Jessica405]

Cheap Pavilion 15"

[Jessica405]

Have a Fuji running 16.04, but keep offline as no longer supported. Battery shagged, too!

[bingbongbangbung]

@Jessica405 yeah laptop vendors cheap out on stuff like hinges, webcam, battery, speakers, etc., so that CPU, GPU, RAM, HDD/SSD, monitor, chassis, keyboard, touchpad, I/O are good or decent

[RavVid]

@Jessica405 That is good to hear

[michael3478]

I never had any of my desktop's slowdown is that common on laptops? I have a custom-built desktop never had any issues. Comes to show if you use quality components from good brands you won't have any issues. But back to the question i think it's up to you. Windows is 11 is definitely more beautiful looking and simplistic but i think you lose some features compared to windows 10. But i think windows 10 is more practical. It's up to you do you want beauty or practicality?

[bingbongbangbung]

yes i'm using a gaming laptop right now and my previous laptops also slowed down after a few years; sadly they don't make laptops with replaceable components anymore (excluding RAM and HDD/SSD obviously) so I can't just swap out the CPU and GPU

[bingbongbangbung]

Most features in Windows 10 I never use cause they're bloatware or third party alternatives are just much better

[Jessica405]

Back up all your log in details. Back up all your bookmarks. Back up all your pics, music etc.

Reinstall Win 10 from scratch. Reinstall all progs. Set up as you like it.

If you want to install Win 11, now is the time. All crap that was slowing your machine has gone. I do not use Win for personal use, but I find Win 11 for work is pretty bug free now.

Good luck!!

[Jessica405]

If you have enough disk space, why not dual boot? Vbox is free is good for Win and Linux, or any other supported OS.

[Jessica405]

Thank you for MHO!

[bingbongbangbung]

i have 2 SSDs and they're both used for Windows 10; if you never knew, Windows tends to do something to the drives so that if you do try dual booting, it causes major issues

[Jessica405]

I used to dual boot Win 10 and Ubuntu 20,.04. It all has to be done in the right order. I now have dedicated machines for Win and Ubuntu..

Plus an off-line home brew running XP.

[bingbongbangbung]

Well I don't know how to do that and also my laptop has proprietary features that probably wouldn't work on Linux

[exitseven]

wI would stick with Windows 10. By the time Microsoft stops supporting Windows 10 you will be ready to buy new hardware.

[bingbongbangbung]

Yeah on the new hardware I'll gladly install Linux

[Paris13]

Why Fix What Ids Not Broken? xxoo

[bingbongbangbung]

But my OS is sort of broken

[Paris13]

Ohhhh Okay. Not Sure if a New "Window "Will Help if Something is Wrong. xx

[bingbongbangbung]

Reinstalling my current OS may remove a lot of issues permanently, but many other issues will come back eventually

[Paris13]

I Think If It Means That Much To You, Take It To a Good Technician. xxoo

[SotiCoto]

Linux.

[bingbongbangbung]

Next time