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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I was always particularly fond of windows turning my laptop on, running updates, and then going into hibernation, which then caused a blue screen trying to come out of it.

The laptop had sleep and hibernation disabled, all of the wake-on-events and automatic updates were disabled as well. (It was an older cranky thing and deserved rest - or to be taken out back and shot.)

Yet, somehow it always turned on for update day, even after I blocked it from the internet via the router.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    (It was an older cranky thing and deserved rest - or to be taken out back and shot.)

    Or gifted something like GNU+Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, 9base, GNU+Ironclad, GNU(+Hurd), KolibriOS, etc, and given a new lease of life for another decade or two, and unlikely to ever suffer like it suffered under windows ever again..

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    No operating system will change your ancient laptop's CPU to a more powerful and efficient one though. It'll feel snappier to use because there are fewer background processes, but it won't really be fast. Browsers will still be slow, so will code compilation, etc.

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