Floofy cuddly kitteh!
Good morning.
I hope you had a good night and that you slept well.
The laptop has been acting up this morning. I really was here, but I couldn’t get the programs to respond in a timely manner, so I just shut things down and went to take my shower.
I feel much better this morning, but I’m still going to be a slug today.
Good morning. I did have a good night, for a change. Bummer about your laptop, and I hope you have a restful Wednesday.
Something happened to Win 10 about two, maybe three, years ago that just killed performance. Some update, or something, just sucked the zip out of the machines. We had just bought a new desktop machine, and it was really nice. Came up fast, things opened up quickly... Then something MS did sapped it.
Less so than the laptops we have, but — yeah; it’s not got half the vim and vigor it had. And there are a couple of laptops that used to be quick and responsive... they’re just NOT, anymore.
Most affected — WiFi.
You fire up the machine, and — even if it was in “Sleep” mode; not fully Shut Down — the WiFi is THE VERY LAST thing to come back to life, and you might wait two or three minutes for it. Sitting watching the icon is like watching water for your pasta come to a boil.
[Insert Jeopardy ‘thinking’ theme, here]
Last school year, one of the girls was using one of the laptops for school — I had to get her to turn the stupid machine on fully TEN MINUTES before class time just to allow for Win 10 to crawl sluggishly through its Start Up roster.
Just madness.
I finally got fed up and loaded Ubuntu onto my ancient HP laptop.
It’s zippy. I got Libre Office for it, so I can open, edit, and save all things MS Office. I put the Brave browser on it following the instructions online... Linux is a foreign land to me, but it’s worth the extra gut check of a few complex-looking command line instructions installing software, because the danged thing WORKS when I turn it on, and QUICKLY.