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I'm hoping I can last one more month with my Win10 laptop. After that I'll have the time to see if UNIX is the way to go. My laptop is almost 10 years old so I'm not sure if that would be like putting lipstick on an old pig or not.
You'll likely be amazed at how well it works, I'd take a 10 year old laptop with Debian+KDE over a brand new laptop with Win11, and it's not close.
Linux is exactly where you should go with old computers.
With a proper distribution/DE combination, you can run it on 20+ year old computers with no issue.
But overall, if your laptop runs Windows 10, it will likely run every Linux distribution easily.
Since security patches are not being deployed on a daily or weekly basis, you should be fine for even more than a month. Eventually using Windows 10 for security or privacy relevant activities, like banking, e-mail or such will become dangerous as more and more unpatched weaknesses might evolve.
nah older laptops flourish with linux. get ventoy and you can already try out distros without getting committed
I just put cachyos on an hp laptop from 2016 or so. It runs so much better now. The old devices dont handle the bloat of Windows well anymore. Ive heard others have had compatibility issues but I haven't so I can't comment on that.