Windows 10
I had many notebooks with a similar specification pass through my hands since around 2013:
– typically with 8 GB memory. That's half as much as yours, but for the purpose of examing startup and post-startup routines, it's more than enough.
I have seen slowness, to varying degrees, with a variety of configurations, nothing as bad as what you describe. For things to crash, there must be something wrong.
Sevendogsbsd if you have priveleges to unbind from, then rebind to Active Directory: try it; you might notice a huge improvement without the domain context.
A great deal depends on how policies etc. are planned and implemented. I can't expect you to share details of group policies in your area, but can you share any additional information about your Windows environment? What anti-malware is in use; anything else that might have a deeply negative impact on hard disk drive activity?
FreeBSD
The 8570p that I currently use has 16 GB memory, I get massively reduced startup and post-startup times with an old 32 GB Kingston DataTraveler G4 as a cache device.
… My work laptop, which is Windows 10 Enterprise and on an enormous AD domain, is beyond slow, I mean molasses slow. 4 core i7, 16GB ram and it takes a full 15 minutes after boot for the drive light to stop and not be pegged at 100% drive utilization. After that it's the normal O365 crashes and slowness, then the OS is at least useable …
I had many notebooks with a similar specification pass through my hands since around 2013:
– typically with 8 GB memory. That's half as much as yours, but for the purpose of examing startup and post-startup routines, it's more than enough.
I have seen slowness, to varying degrees, with a variety of configurations, nothing as bad as what you describe. For things to crash, there must be something wrong.
Sevendogsbsd if you have priveleges to unbind from, then rebind to Active Directory: try it; you might notice a huge improvement without the domain context.
A great deal depends on how policies etc. are planned and implemented. I can't expect you to share details of group policies in your area, but can you share any additional information about your Windows environment? What anti-malware is in use; anything else that might have a deeply negative impact on hard disk drive activity?
FreeBSD
The 8570p that I currently use has 16 GB memory, I get massively reduced startup and post-startup times with an old 32 GB Kingston DataTraveler G4 as a cache device.