"Can your old PC run Windows 10? The answer will surprise you ... https://www.pcworld.com/article/2951112/hardware/can-your-old-pc-run-windows-10-the-answer-will-surprise-you.html.
But as for the differences... if you do a clean install of Win 10 without all the bloated crap from 3rd party vendors like HP or DELL loaded then everything is pretty clean and Win 7 like.
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What we need is for MS to drop the whole app thing and remove it. Also they need to remove about 50% of the “features” no one wants. Beyond that though, it has been better than Win 7 overall in performance and function.
Yes, but about now we can expect a "switch to Linux" (630 flavors ) post.
I’ve loaded Windows 10 on some insanely old systems and it works very well.
One interesting tidbit is that for the most part you can figure it out like this: If it will run Vista, it will probably run 10 ok.
You can take a 10 year old computer, put a $40 SSD in it, install Windows 10 and have a pretty decent extra system around the house.
