Title kind of says it all but it’s still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.
Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.
You’re exaggerating.
IDK, I have the same experience. It takes 10 good seconds to open the file manager on my win11 work PC with 32GB of ram and 12x CPU threads. It also takes 5 minutes from power up to usable desktop. My Clevo laptop from 2011 with 4x cores and 8GB of RAM sporting Debian is much smoother to operate.