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Re:Wait, did Microsoft kill sleep? on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:19PM (#35704507)
I'm not even using Windows, but MS has ruined it for us all. S0 works reasonably well on my ThinkPad X13 G2 with Ubuntu, meaning it goes to "sleep" and wakes up without problems and last a couple days to a week. But is this what I want? I don't need some always-connected bs, thank you! I can wait 5 seconds for my laptop to wakeup and then check for new mail. Seriously, MS, do something.

Edit: Or is Intel to blame here? I don't know.

Edit2: Or maybe Lenovo or all 3? Didn't this work in the past pretty flawlessly?

Re:Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:13PM (#32752530)
You might be right. Anyway, I played it shortly after it was released and it was the mid '90s.
Re:Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:51AM (#32748203)
Ah yes, had it running on my Pentium 60 MHz, 16MB RAM in '95. Didn't run on highest specs, but performance was good enough in SVGA. 60MHz single core and having a floating point unit in your CPU was considered acceleration.
Re:The new and upgraded Framework Laptop on Thursday May 19, 2022 @11:39PM (#31443089)
Any plans on adding a touchscreen option in the future ? I almost bought one earlier this year but really wanted a convertible. So I bought the new X13 yoga gen2 instead, which I am quite happy with for now (works well with Ubuntu). I use it rarely in tablet mode though and could probably live without this feature but I absolutely love having a touchscreen on my notebook.
Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:55PM (#30952855)
I use linux exclusively for ~15 years on all my computers. Last year i bought a Ryzen5 PC with an RTX3070 after only using laptops for around 10 years. I absolutely expected difficulties with the GPU but it was all smooth sailing from the beginning. I through the newest Ubuntu on there and checked install non-free during the installation. I haven't had to deal with drivers at all for years now.