Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010)
by eimrine on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:27AM
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1. Bigger battery life
2. Decent PDF reader such as STDU, music player such as foobar2000 - if running all of these under Wine the battery life is going to become even less
3. If the computer is not needed to be connected to the Internets even occationally, there is no better option than W7.
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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010)
by smoldesu on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:45AM
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> if running all of these under Wine the battery life is going to become even less
Citation? Running a Wineserver should use less resources than a complete Win32 runtime.
Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010)
by w0m on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:25PM
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In my experience, even a 'light' linux distro isn't optimized enough to match Win or osx battery life on the same hardware.
Maybe things have changed since my last test (Ubuntu on my ~2011 MBA installed ~12mo ago)
Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010)
by smoldesu on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:47PM
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Frankly, I think that's more of a Linux problem than a Wine one. You're right that Linux is overall worse at power management than OSX or Windows, but Wine itself is extremely light on any OS it supports. On a resource-constrained machine (eg. >2gb RAM), I'd imagine that Wine would be less resource-intensive than native modern Windows would.