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how shit of a software company do you have to be where your own os's software running through a translation layer on another operating system is threatening to run faster than natively on your os. somethings gotta snap.
it's not just the software that runs better, in many cases it's the hardware too.
Take laptop batteries for example. users will state over and over how their batteries last a lot longer when their system is running linux as opposed to windows.
It used to be the opposite a lot of the time. Power management used to be a huge problem. Lately though things got a lot better.
I was about to say, my experience with battery life on Linux has not been a positive one.