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and can repurpose "old windows" laptops to usable devices again now everything went to the cloud. My computers, my non-techie wife, my 80 year old parents, my 10 year old daughter all took fast to the windows-like look and feel. I use it as a server, master backup with a RAID, and run scripts to the day is long. My LTS 18.04 was installed, what, 5 years ago, and haven't had a single problem or slowdown or virus at all. Before that, I had 12.04 running for 7 years with the same performance.
It just runs, and doesn't get slow as long as you lock out "su" so they can't mess something up 
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