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Re:Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer up... by ZoF on Saturday August 20, 2016 @09:01AM (#12326372)
Will this finally be the year of the Linux desktop? Nope.
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Re:Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer up... by Agathos on Saturday August 20, 2016 @09:07AM (#12326402)
The year of Linux on the desktop was around 2010. The trouble is, I'm still waiting for the year of Linux on the laptop.
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Re:Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer up... by ZoF on Saturday August 20, 2016 @10:52AM (#12326848)
Yeah, I was just joking really. (Although it's true, if by 'year of the linux desktop' you mean 'year it gets >10% marketshare')

My NAS runs CentOS and I have Arch/Ubuntu on my home pc's, but I still dual boot Windows on one because gaming.

The 'I wonder who else will switch to Debian 8 like me' just struck me as comical.

I would be extremely surprised if MS lost any meaningful amount of marketshare from Win10, especially to linux distros.

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Re:Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer up... by cmdrfred on Saturday August 20, 2016 @09:13AM (#12326430)
I have a cheap chromebook with Crouton and I'm very happy for the price. Cheap, light and I get about 10 hours of battery life.
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Re:Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer up... by arthurfm on Saturday August 20, 2016 @05:01PM (#12328288)
> The trouble is, I'm still waiting for the year of Linux on the laptop.

Do Chromebooks count?

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Re:Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer up... by mr_overalls on Saturday August 20, 2016 @09:22AM (#12326462)
Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude here. Windows runs in Virtualbox. It just works.
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Re:Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer up... by lttlrck on Saturday August 20, 2016 @10:28AM (#12326748)
How is the default battery life? I had to use pretty aggressive tlp settings to get within 50% of what windows gets on an XPS out of the box.
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