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Now if a fresh Windows 11 install on a common 5-year-old laptop could be set up out of the box with perpetual updates (Skylake CPUs aren't new enough) and working power management (microsoft deleted my acpi tables =C) as well as working suspend and hibernate, perhaps we could some day declare the year of the Windows desktop.



> microsoft deleted my acpi tables =C

My first Linux experience was on a garbage-picked laptop I got for free because it had broken power management on Windows

I think in its case, the hardware was somehow damaged and Linux just fell back to APM instead of ACPI, so the technical details are different

but there's something nostalgic and funny to me about the prospect that this kind of thing could become a pattern :)


The Windows Desktop had many years. It may be in decline now, we'll see.




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