I've worked with Ubuntu for a number of years and recently had to dual boot Windows 10 Home to get Path of Exile working properly on my laptop, a Dell 3340 laptop with a fourth gen core i5, ssd and 8 gigs of ram. This gave me a direct comparison between the two operating systems and Ubuntu is doing a good job.
-Ubuntu starts up faster
-Ubuntu feels faster
-Chrome starts faster in Ubuntu
-Chrome tabs open and render much faster in Ubuntu
-Much more battery life in Ubuntu, something like 13 hours instead of 8 hours (this is with windows antivirus and cortana disabled)
-Ubuntu "plays nice" with the master boot record, making for easier dual boot
-Ubuntu automatically retrieves proper time on setup, with windows I have to manually switch retrieve time every restart
-Easy for me to uninstall services that consume unnecessary cpu in Ubuntu, like avahi daemon and cups server, whereas in Windows I had to registry hack disable them(and cortana process still shows up)
-Full work environment setup in Ubuntu (which includes windows programs working through Wine)
-Games like Hearthstone, Warcraft 3 and Aardwolf mud work emulated in Ubuntu
-better "space management" in Ubuntu, my precious ssd space isn't taken up by 1GB driver backups from NVidia GeForce Eperience (my egpu will be NVidia hence I had to readup). I can't blame Windows for that but they have epic "temp app whatever" directories and their OS is massive GBs
-Ubuntu installed without issue, Windows 10 on first startup wouldn't let me login with the password I set so I had to hack in by setting the utilities button to open an admin command prompt. Windows also overwrote the master boot record.
-Windows 10 by default tries to "torrent" my updates to other people and use my upload bandwidth which I had to disable
-Windows 10 has full DirectX 12 support and Path of Exile runs well without crashing at 800x600, on Ubuntu it crashes
-Chromecast "cast tab" didn't work on Ubuntu and did work on Windows 10
-Skype web works well on Windows 10, on Ubuntu I don't quite think it does
So yeah very good experience Ubuntu is my main desktop thanks!
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