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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete."

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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Go install Linux Mint and you might just realize that line is already way behind microsoft.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Nah. Gonna stick to gaming on my GNU GUIX through Proton thanks.

    Linux is clearly not only good enough, but simpler too.

    It's just a ton of perception, habits and sales pipelines that need moving now. If electronics stores started putting out Linux Gaming PCs, nobody buying them would be worse off than Windows. That has been true for well over a year.

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  • [+] -11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's not. There are plenty of bugs and hardware issues. Bluetootth from my motherboard doesn't work and I can't even turn my monitor off without having to remove and reinsert HDMI.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    My WiFi wouldn't work until I disabled fast-boot in the BIOS and restarted the system twice.

    TBF, even with that headache, setting up a windows 11 machine without signing up for an account and personalized ads takes more effort. So I consider it a total success.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I didn't say there were no issues.

    My 4-monitor setup at work functions considerably better in both ubuntu and debian based Linux Mints than it does in Windows. Just your standard corporate Dell laptop & docking station.

    No computers have zero weird stuff wrong with them. But over time the design intent has mattered more and more versus just the bugginess of the execution.

    In my experience though, Linux has pulled ahead in both. And by a lot.

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