What assembly of Windows OS to put on a weak laptop?

Question

laptops

There is a laptop made in 2012 with an AMD E300 processor (2x 1.3 GHz) and an integrated video card using 256 MB from only two GB of RAM. As for me, its weakest side is the processor. More and more it began to manifest itself after installing the vaunted Vin10. And the update from Win7, which was not reinstalled for a long time (almost 2 years), miraculously did not clutter up and, as it turned out, worked better than the current Win10 without third-party software.
As a result, I have the following.
Pros:
the OS starts faster
Cons:
When surfing the Internet, when the page is first loaded on the tab, there is a 10-20 second wait for "something"
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The overall performance in light games has decreased (in STALKER CS, loading a location takes much longer than it did on Win7)
Maybe all this is because services or "System and compressed memory" constantly load the disk or processor (maybe they are not the only ones involved in this)
As a result, it is not clear what is the best thing to do to eliminate this headache: "twist" Win10, or install some kind of productive assembly of Win7, if the second option, then which assembly is better to install?

Answer 1

As a Linuxoid, I can answer that you need to install the OS from a licensed image without any inclusions of software from the laptop manufacturer and not take assembly curves.
On top of all this, you need to roll the minimum set of drivers from the motherboard manufacturer's website (chipset, network, sound, SATA, USB, power saving) and the driver for the video card from the official AMD website.
After all this, you can work on optimization - remove various effects, disable services that are not needed for the tasks you are solving, remove unnecessary from startup.
All this will allow you to have more or less decent performance. However, you should understand that your hardware is no longer new and will not "fly". Therefore, it is not worth hoping that the games will be good, fast, and indeed everything will work in a row.
Specifically for your device, perhaps Windows 7 or, with a stretch, Windows 8.1 would be best. For the first, unfortunately, support is over, if my memory serves me right. Up to 10 it makes no sense for you to upgrade. There are no special optimizations for weak hardware, resource intensity is higher, and DirectX 12 support will not give you anything - hardware cannot.

Answer 2

What assembly of Windows OS to put on a weak laptop?

Linux, of course...

Answer 3

Install Linux Mint 17.3 with Xfce shell, you will not play games anymore, but you will see the performance

Answer 4

XUbuntu