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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by tracker1 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:11PM (#12308009)
That reminds me of another one... (Ubuntu htpc) I can "shut-down" and the remote startup works, but if it actually goes into suspend, I have to hit the actual power button in the cabinet. And more often than not the audio is broken on resume from suspend and I have to completely shut down to fix it (reboot doesn't work)... this is with a core i3-5010u, which is a relatively common intel audio chipset.

I agree there are aspects of every OS that I don't like... I just wouldn't single out Windows (again other than privacy) as particularly bad on updates... updating my mbp to el capitan took a wipe as the upgrade broke half way through.

TIP: Never update when you're tethered to your phone on vacation, always update a week before leaving for vacation by the way. lol

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by AstralStorm on Monday August 22, 2016 @12:17PM (#12337351)
Remote startup and wakeup is actually handled by firmware of your mainboard. (or Intel ME) Ubuntu cannot fix hardware problems most of the time.

Drivers still breaking in S3 is often a result of lack of Windows driver workarounds for this case. And Ubuntu using slightly outdated kernel versions.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by tracker1 on Monday August 22, 2016 @05:18PM (#12339515)
Considering it's Intel hardware (nuc), I'm not sure what the point is, since Intel tends to have some of the best Linux support. In any case, shouldn't linux receive a signal that it's recovered from sleep and that should allow it to re-initialize problem hardware/drivers?

I keep running it, my point was that it's not exactly rosey with Linux all of the time either.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by pritambaral on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @04:49AM (#12350633)
I work with hardware devs who work with Intel NUCs professionally (I do software). The NUCs have some really crazy firmware/hardware bugs. In fact, just yesterday I had to suggest to them to get the OS (Linux) to power cycle a hung hardware, and they said "Yeah ... the PMIC doesn't shut off power to that bus, the only way is to shut down the entire system. We asked Intel, that's what they said."
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