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Re:Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From ma... by ryandrake on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:22AM (#35219866)
I disagree that it’s a trade-off. Linux could match Apple’s out of the box battery performance. It’s just that nobody seems to care about Linux’s “out of the box” default configuration because, well, the user can futz with it! Things are slowly getting better though. But we still don’t have that distribution where things are already futzed for you and everything runs as well as it can.
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Re:Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From ma... by runjake on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:35AM (#35220028) 

  > It’s just that nobody seems to care about Linux’s “out of the box” default configuration
Define “out of the box” because with Linux there’s millions of hardware variations to deal with.

The only possible way this would work OOB is if the OEM or the community maintained OOB settings for each hardware variant.

Heck, I was recently shopping PC laptops and would see variations in CPU OEMs (AMD vs Intel) for the same model.

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