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I wish I had mustered up the courage to leave Windows earlier; my PCs are so quiet now (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/linuxmint@programming.dev

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I feel like trying to persuade people to leave Windows purely from a privacy angle is being too specific or extreme for those who really don't care/gave up. I think a great, alternative way to win people over would be to simply point out how much more efficient it is and energy-saving for their own electric bills.

Just don't warn them about how much energy they may end up ironically expending as a result of tinkering with it and fixing issues and finding cool stuff like Burn My Windows, haha... 🤫

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not been my experience at all, and I use both Windows and Linux laptops every day (lots of testing in my lab).

With some effort I can make Linux power management similar to Windows default (depending on the specific hardware and distro).

Unfortunately the latest hardware often doesn't support true S3 sleep, and depends on the OS to keep it quiescent, which is a whole bucket of a shit show regardless of the OS.

But then my use-case for each OS is different. I don't compare them because they're different tools.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

true S3 sleep

What is this? I've never heard of it before...