Windows 11 slowed my hardware to a crawl. Linux runs lighter with rolling updates, and keeps older PCs fast for years instead of becoming e-waste.
A lightweight Linux distribution can revive old hardware. Puppy Linux and Linux Lite achieve this in very different ways. Both of these distributions can be used for free. Do you have an old computer ...
Are you sure you placed the boot partition at the beginning of the disk with fdisk (or cfdisk...) when you installed it? If memory serves me there is an option in cfdisk as to where to place the ...