It needs a SSD drive to boot faster. Otherwise it takes a few minutes instead of seconds.
Windows 10 is for newer hardware anyway, it runs slow on older hardware.
Windows 10 is for newer hardware anyway, it runs slow on older hardware.
In 2018 Microsoft disbanded the Windows team and moved engineering efforts to its cloud and AI teams. Windows 10 is on life support by engineers who aren't intimately familiar with its codebase. Performance and usability will only degrade in this situation and the specifications of newer hardware don't excuse constant deterioration in performance.
Windows 10 is probably slow on HDDs because it's updating a load of UWP apps in the background, resmon.exe disk tab will show what's going on.