I used Windows for years and it always slo o o w e d down over time regardless of what I did. I switched to Linux and it’s as fast today as the day I installed it. I’m never going back.
i have a freshly installed windows 10 and 11 on triple boot and have put on the programs i want on both, and done macrium reflect backups- as time goes on, and they slow down I’ll revert it back to the backup- don’t know if that will continue to keep it ‘speedy’ or not- but gonna try- any files i keep are kept on another drive-
But yeah, gotta really work hard at keeping windows working good- even my old windows 7 was slowing down pretty bad- woiudl get to desktop and just sit and sit until it was good and ready to let me begin using it-
A comprehensive how to for the Linux swap would be great to find.
I fear going down a rabbit hole with driver hunting.