Chris Hogg wrote:

I find I'm much happier with W10 on the PC than I was with W10 on the
little laptop

maybe the manufacturer had set the laptop in "tablet mode"?

There's a toggle on the activity centre (from the bottom right sepech
bubble icon) it seems to confuse the hell out of people when they
accidentally click it ... try it see if that's how the laptop felt, you
can just toggle it off again to get back to normal.