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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by acomjean on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:22PM (#35517547)
I switched to linux. I like it and haven't really had any issues to speak of. Not with sound, video, wifi or any of the other things people complain about. My fan went, but likely it was a pet fur issue, and easy to fix... I'm not an admin. I know how to use the command line, and how to use it as a work machine. Really my experience over the past 3 years, its been as trouble free as my Mac used to be. It really is the great development platform.

Glad you like your machine.

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by grugagag on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:59PM (#35517905)
Can you hybernate your system without issues?
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by acomjean on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:08PM (#35519006)
it "suspends" fine. I have 3 options, suspend, off and reboot. I usually suspend overnight. Sometimes I turn it off. It boots super fast anyway.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by wankle on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:35PM (#35520062)
Windows can't be hibernated without issue. My wife had issues the past week already on Windows. She wants me to put Ubuntu back on the machine.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by JadeNB on Monday April 10, 2023 @07:12PM (#35518536)
> I switched to linux. I like it and haven't really had any issues to speak of. Not with sound, video, wifi or any of the other things people complain about.

What's your machine+distro?

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by acomjean on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:10PM (#35519028)
I'm running a last gen pangolin, (AMD 5700U). Pop OS. I don't do anything too crazy. I develop on JetBrains I did keep it awake for 3 days doing some genetics work I usually do on a cluster. Its fast, quiet and decent on battery. AMD on the notebook is really impressive.
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