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I got my kid over to Pop OS yesterday. It was so amusing because he has been running Windows all this time and when I use his computer, I get frustrated since it's so slow and laggy and freezes up etc.
He always tells me "stop being so fast, you have to wait for the computer!".
We installed PopOS and he was literally amazed how fast it was. He saw that I could open programs and interact with them with no lag and no issues whatsoever. His comment was "I didn't know it could be like this".
Exactly.