Hello, I purchased an entry level model Android phone and after a few months of usage it works infinitely smoother and faster than Windows 10 on HDD with beautiful animations. There are no lags, nothing hangs, nothing freezes. The system takes around 27 GB of space compared to my Windows 10 that just takes 6 GB of space including pagefile. I don't think there's a task manager in Android to see how many processes are running simultaneously but I'm assuming, given the size of the OS on the disk, there will be many. Plus all the Google goodies like mandatory telemetry, location tracking, apps scrapping and all the stuff. Windows doesn't have all this but still is slower. Why ? Asking this question so that I'll probably consider moving to Android OS on PC. Any opinions / insights posted will be highly appreciated.
On Windows, you have services that run in the background, such as the Search Indexer, Superfetch (which optimizes your most used programs), or Windows Update. The OS may initially be quite slow, but it'll work fine after some time. Also, if you have Fast Startup enabled, you may want to fully shut down or reboot your computer once in a while, since that technology basically puts the computer into hibernation by saving all contents of memory to your local disk.
Windows 10/11 runs like s**t on HDD no matter how newer or older the install is. I think Microsoft just assumed that everybody's got a high end PC with latest hardware. Anyways, I really dislike these new edition of Windows and I think Windows 12 is going suck it even more with all the AI and stuff integrated into it. I'm trying to move away from Windows altogether. Tried Ubantu and really liked it but some of my softwares won't run on it plus there's a learning curve associated with it. But no such issues with Android based OS's. It's really simple and easy to use with no associated leaning curve involved. Plus there's an app for about everything these days. Dev's tend to cater Android users first before they do for PC users as there are more Android users than that of Windows. I plan to purchase a new machine this summer, will gather more information about what I need to run a full fledged Android OS. Many thanks for the response. Highly appreciated.
#1 Android is from 2009, Windows has still sections of code from DOS, released in 1981. #2 Android (which has little to do with GNU/Linux) has self contained app settings that are deleted and recreated each time the app is installed and uninstalled, while in windows the tradition is (at least was) to centralize all the setting in the registry (and .ini files), which means that when you uninstall a program hardly your System is identical to before the application was installed. #3 Given the #2 Windows was built as a mean to run a *PERSONAL* computer, all backups, restore, installations and data, were local and managed by the user, Android copied the sh1tty concept of the iPhone, that assume the user is just a puppet in the hands of big corps, all backups, restore installations are managed by the ecosystem, which is nice for ignorant users who pay the price of this apparent simplicity and lack of troubles, with the history of their lives. Windows is desperately trying to ape the above, but is still possible to have a system mostly in the control of the user. Perhaps is relatively easy to run even win2k in a fairly recent PC, while is practically impossible to run, say, the good old android 3 even in a 10 years old smartphone. #4 compare apples with apples, if you want to do a fair comparison, you need to compare a android or (iphone) smartphone with Windows running on NVME SSDs, given there is no smartphone running on mechanical HDD (one Nokia had it but was used just for data not the OS). #5 Albeit, like I said, Microsoft is desperately trying to milk the users in the Apple/Google fashion, all the infrastructure (modern apps, cloud based services and alike) is still an addition, not a replacement, which surely doesn't help the latest Windows to be lean and clean. After all the most unique and unmatched windows feature is the compatibility with the past, no other OS (including GNU/Linux) can do the same. There is a price to pay (in term of performances and simplicity) for that, a well worth price IMO, the majority of the herd disagree.