My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good

Re:My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good by joe_the_user on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:50PM (#25425066)

I get 12+ hours battery like from my HP Stream (it kept going through the last several blackout). Configuring my laser printer driver is a slight hassle but it works. A touch-screen laptop sounds icky, never tried it.

The reason I use Linux is nothing is going to be pulled out from under me. No long random updates, the computer is mine.

Linux makes good enough use of the massive resources a modern laptop has.

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Re:My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good by ravoori on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:48PM (#25427111)

What Linux distribution do you use on HP Stream? I used Ubuntu on mine and for some reason Firefox is intolerably slow. That really does sour things for me

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Re:My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good by jbboehr on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:16AM (#25428157)

Try enabling hardware acceleration (layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true in about:config I think). I was having issues until I learned it was disabled by default on Linux.

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