I used Linux to clean up Windows — and it worked better than expected

Complacency, rather than bad hardware, is the cause of several PC slowdowns. Your system can accumulate background services, telemetry data, and temporary files, causing performance to degrade quietly. Some of the common cleaners we use aren’t very effective, so I took the opposite route: using Linux tools to fix Windows. This is one of the habits I’ve carried over from years of using Linux.