I finally got around to upgrading my mom’s computer (an Asus laptop from 2015) from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I’ve already deleted a few apps she won’t use (e.g., Xbox) and disabled/stopped some unneeded services. What else can I do to keep her computer fast? Particularly interesting in more services I can disable and the best browser/ad blocker combo. Thanks y’all!

Hi everyone, so, I'm going to start a new freelancing job so, I decided to create a separate admin local account on my personal desktop so that everything would be better organized and, for example, to not show my installed games if I have to share my screen to someone. So, my objective would be to not have duplicated installed programs for the two user accounts and when appropriate, only install a work program on the work account.

But, I thought setting up this would actually be easier than I thought. At first, I thought all programs would be installed for all local users or that they would install only for the current user, but it seems it is completely random. Some programs show up on my new user account, some don't. Sadly, most programs do not ask if you want to install for the current user or for all users. Some programs don't even ask where do you want to install your program.

A good example is Firefox, it is installed system-wide and when I start, I have a fresh new browser where I set up the desired settings and add-ons which means my settings are only for the currently logged user.

I know there are some easy "tricks", like, move the desktop shortcut from my User Desktop folder to the Public Desktop. But it is harder to do for programs like f.lux, which should start when Windows boots up. Some programs also do not show up when you search on the start menu.

Has anyone gone through the same process as I? Can anyone give me tips on how to better organize between Work and Personal local user accounts? Basically, some programs like my browser should be "shared" between both accounts, but a work program should only be available on the Work local account (should I simply install into C:\Users<work-user>\AppData\Local\Programs ?).

Sorry, for all the trouble. I already investigated on the web and I don't find any good information to be honest.

Or phone, or after an OS reinstall, etc. Just got to thinking about it because I did a fresh install of Arch on my chromebook the other day, and I'd be curious what other people's priority software installs are. For me, after the basics like drivers, it's xfce, Firefox, Transmission, Libreoffice, and VLC on linux. Pretty much the same on Windows, plus a few utilities like 7zip, PuTTY, and notepad++. For Android installs I grab nova launcher, Hangouts Dialer, F-Droid, NewPipe and MoonReader before anything else.

EDIT: Forgot firefox on android, as well as ublock origin on all platforms.

Also not completely sure if this belongs more in ~tech or ~comp.

Right now I dual boot windows 10 and fedora, windows for gaming, fedora for everything else. I'm considering running linux as my only native operating system, and running windows in a virtual machine for gaming. This will be more convenient than restarting my pc every time I want to play a game, and I'll feel better about having windows sandboxed in a VM than running natively on my computer.

To get gaming performance out of a virtual machine, I'm planning to have two gpus. One for linux to use, and one reserved exclusively for the virtual machine.

Have any of you set up a computer like this before? What was your experience like? How was the performance?