Wasn’t the fans (mind you the last version of Windows that have touched any of my machines was 8.1) it was the hard disk. Every Windows machine I’ve ever used with a mechanical hard drive, from a 486 IBM PS/2 to my Dell Inspiron laptop always sounded like the hard disk had baseball cards in the spokes. Linux doesn’t make the same noise; it doesn’t sound as frantic. It’s like Windows has more papers to shuffle or something.
That almost immediately struck me when I started using Linux about ten years ago and no one else seems to know what I’m talking about.
Wasn’t the fans (mind you the last version of Windows that have touched any of my machines was 8.1) it was the hard disk. Every Windows machine I’ve ever used with a mechanical hard drive, from a 486 IBM PS/2 to my Dell Inspiron laptop always sounded like the hard disk had baseball cards in the spokes. Linux doesn’t make the same noise; it doesn’t sound as frantic. It’s like Windows has more papers to shuffle or something.
That almost immediately struck me when I started using Linux about ten years ago and no one else seems to know what I’m talking about.