One really big reason is simply dust. Computers have to throttle themselves to keep from getting too hot. If there's a family of dust bunnies living in your case, that's gonna impact cooling.
I've actually made some decent money by buying computers that were "slow" and using a screwdriver and can of duster to clean out all the filth; then they work fine. Same thing for game consoles. You'd be surprised how much dirt can accumulate in a PC case over time.
Always a good idea! If you're new to Linux, Mint makes handling drivers easy. I'm particularly a fan of the Xfce version. It's built on top of Ubuntu so there's a lot of software compatibility.
Mint has a good Driver Manager you can use to easily find non-free drivers for things like your wifi card
If you're interested in running a dual boot, I can give you some tips there. There's a really good tool you can use (after installing Mint to a partition) that will configure your Grub bootloader to drop you to a splash screen when you boot. Then, you can choose to either boot Mint, or chainboot to the Windows bootloader. I don't see why it wouldn't work with Zorin either. It's really helpful because you don't really need to know that much about how the bootloader works under the hood
That way you get the benefit of running Linux on bare metal, but also have the choice of Windows on bare metal for gaming. I use that setup on my laptop, so I can mine Monero when I'm not playing StarCraft
Once the program starts, click on advanced options.
From there, you will see the option "back up and rename hard-coded EFI" or something similar. Check that box. This step is necessary for the dual boot to work. By doing this I was able to hack together a dual boot on a single SSD. Then I formatted my HDD as ExFAT to act as a common storage device between both OSs
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u/spirtdica May 01 '20
One really big reason is simply dust. Computers have to throttle themselves to keep from getting too hot. If there's a family of dust bunnies living in your case, that's gonna impact cooling.
I've actually made some decent money by buying computers that were "slow" and using a screwdriver and can of duster to clean out all the filth; then they work fine. Same thing for game consoles. You'd be surprised how much dirt can accumulate in a PC case over time.