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Message: [QUOTE="diapered, post: 161692, member: 143752"] [USER=963]@Yousef[/USER] is right. Yes, linux will typically be faster, and is 100% guaranteed to on older hardware. This is for many technical reasons (I don't understand kernel stuff too well), but one that comes to mind that might be enlightening for windows vs linux is the file system philosophy: linux stores the files in a more sensible way. This is why you do not need to defragmentate a linux file system on a hdd, and you do for windows. Since ssd are common now, I don't know how much of a difference this makes anymore, but I'm just giving a quick example. Now that does not mean linux will always win. If your hardware requires a bunch of proprietary drivers that do not talk to your linux kernel version and there is no wrapper or fix you can find, then you are going to have a bad time. However, this is becoming less of an issue nowadays. Back in the day, it was a major pain to even get wifi working sometimes. [/QUOTE]

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