When I was using a few years old (not even particularly old, I think it was maybe only like 3–4 years old at that point?) HDD running Windows it took like half an hour to start up lmfao. Now using that HDD as my home directory with an SSD as the root directory of an Artix Linux install and it’s silky smooth, including manipulating files in my home dir, so I think Windows might just be bad lol