Ubuntu now available from the Windows store

Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by microcolonel on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:34AM (#14742248)

I second that, I've never had a PM or major GPU driver issue on Linux. I've always found that battery life improved from Windows to Linux on a given machine. Granted, you could call this unfair since I run a lot fewer daemons on my Linux boxes than run by default on Windows, but I'd call that a strength.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by ac29 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:25AM (#14744947)

SATA Active Link Power Management is or was broken on my laptop. Too bad, it is required for the CPU package as a whole to reach the lowest power state and dramatically improved battery life.

It also ate a ton of files on day 3 or 4 of me using it (not even files that were open, it just randomly corrupted ~5-10% of the drive). Probably wont be checking to see if that is fixed anytime soon.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by aries1980 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:33AM (#14742966)

The Nvidia Optimus support doesn't work and forget Wayland.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by Kubuxu on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @08:44AM (#14743626)

There is Bumblebee that works on Linux as a replacement for Nvidia Optimus, getting it working isn't trivial but Nvidia is to blame here not Linux.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by trankas on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:51AM (#14743046)

This.

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