I have always been a big fan of XP (for obvious reasons) and then W10 came along and I thought to myself this is just as good as XP but with with improvements - W10 is XP but on steroids ! Then this year came along and I had to reinstall W10 (with all its updates), and wow, this version was an improvement than one of the original version which I had kept on using whenever I needed to reinstall, and, because I had reinstall on multiple occasions I could quite easy compare the speeds on how long it takes at which this latest version installed. With this latest version of W10(2022) there was certainly a nice slick and shiny feel to the GUI and I thought to myself that this was it and I will just stay with W10 instead of migrating to W11, but, with all this messing around (as mention in this thread), I am so glad the way things have panned out because now I am a huge fan of W11 - even more so than the latest version of W10. With W11, I like the way Microsoft has designed the new taskbar and how it feels more like a Mac, even I have never really used a Mac, and with the explorer windows the corners have been nicely rounded off so it does certainly feel much more visually pleasing and smoothing to ones eyes. I found when launching either the control panel or main settings they appeared immediately which I have never seen on previous version of Windows even on relatively fast standalone machines.
This week I have manage to find myself a Grade A Asus X515EA laptop costing me only £220 - so I am feeling pretty good about the whole situation. My second laptop which I have ever purchase (Dell G3), initially costing me between £1300-£1400 (including all the upgrades), and after a short time I had notice that there was one single pixel issue so Amazon decided to give me a 10% discount instead of returning the G3 back to them. In comparison the X515 is a real bargain compared to the G3 - although - the G3 had a discrete Nvidia GPU and an i7 and so going back to what you mentioned in your last thread I do believe that the 11th gen processor and W11 works very well in unison. But saying that I would like to test my belief out by using W11 on a 10th gen processor or one of it's predecessors.
I am only really using the X515 for general purpose stuff, trading cryptocurrencies, and software development so I'd opt for an i3 instead of an i7 which I usually op in for because I had this notion that the higher the "i" the better the performance which it is but I don't see the point in splashing out for additional spec if I am not going to be making any use, by doing, so unless cash is of unlimited supply and then that is a totally different ball game...
This is the first time I ever had purchase any machine with an i3 and I am glad that I made the right choice - I now can sell my desktop, which I was going to upgrade and convert into a dual machine, if you recall from a previous thread? But I have no purpose for a dual machine now as this new i3 laptop and W11 works very well together.
I have been thinking recently about going the alternative OS route because I can run my own bespoke trading software run from there, as I have heard that Linux runs a lot faster than Windows OS - the main reason being (which I'd found out recently) was that Linux doesn't have all the unnecessary services running in the background which would otherwise use up precious, valuable hardware resources. In the end though when I get round to doing the job I will just create a dual boot system - W11 and Linux.