“Still on W7 and like it.”
I liked Win 7 also. Everything after was garbage. I went from Win 7 to Linux Mint. Mint is well... Almost Win 7.
I recently tried a XFCE Linux Mint version hoping it would be more efficient with battery runtime than Windows 10, but it seemed like it only got 6-7 hours compared to 8-9 of Windows 10. Any settings I should switch to optimize battery runtime? The first thing I usually do is keep brightness at minimum, set the screen to turn off if inactive for 1 minute or 2, turn off hard drive after 5 minutes of inactivity, all settings to maximize battery life and minimize performance, I have most everything disabled within startup so there are less unneeded background processes running wasting battery life. Anything else I can try? What is the other version of Linux that will optimize battery life? I tried Debian but it seemed so unlike Linux Mint I gave up after a few hours. It was claimed to be one of the most efficient version of Linux but it seemed to drop 1^ of battery life every 10 minutes.