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Them running dual-boot with Windows as the default boot choice.
Whaaat my laptop is 13yo, It is faster than new, just because I added ram and ssd 4 years ago
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Even worse if you clicked "Update and restart"
not if Arch LInux is installed on it
Sometimes I wait to enter the bios so I can press the power off button while there.
Have you tried swapping in a 21$ SSD?
I've on more than one occasion saved an old laptop from being replaced simply by slapping a cheap SATA SSD into them. The owners are almost always convinced that they needed a new PC, when all they do with it is browse Facebook and watch TikTok all day.
all they do with it is browse Facebook and watch TikTok all day.
World‘s most common PC use case
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Or just any time you try to shut down Windows without pulling the plug
Wipe your device and do a fresh install from scratch via USB. It will run like new.
~~51 years~~ 8 seconds
$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 2.277s (firmware) + 1.145s (loader) + 1.644s (kernel) + 3.211s (userspace) = 8.279s
graphical.target reached after 3.211s in userspace.
$ lscpu | awk -F ' +' '/^ *M.* n/ {print $1, $2}'
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3517U CPU @ 1.90GHz
$ vmstat -s | awk -F '^ +' '/[0-9]* K t.* m/ {print $2}'
3901984 K total memory2s in firmware??? I'm used to at least 30s
I do that with my playstation too, but it's rear mode instead of off.
Pls explain meme.. 🥹 Am a Linux user, haven't experienced that 🤔 I don't see the fundamental difference between powering off Linux machine and restarting it. Presumably you'd have to power it on again at some point? Or is it that you'd have to wait for it to restart to power it off again? 🤔 Cause then it's pretty safe to hold the power button for hardware power off. Once it's restarted, all the user data is synced to disk. Hard power off before user login will not lose any important data 99.99% of the time.
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on linux? nah.
try using windows on a machine that old if you want to know the true meaning of slow. it will always be updating something meaningless like edge in the background on top of it.
Have they fixed that 100% disk usage bug in Windows yet? Seems to disproportionately affect laptops with magnetic disk's and just chokes the whole system making it unusable
Is that what the fuck I've been experiencing?
Jesus Christ this is it I'm finding a damn DVD and getting Linux.
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Me, who still daily drives an Intel Skylake laptop from 2015: 🤡
The boot time isn't actually that bad, it's like 6 seconds with Win10 and an SSD.
Your Skylake laptop from 2015 boots faster than my Zen 4 desktop from 2022 (with a PCIe Gen 4 NVME SSD!)
This thing takes 25 seconds just to POST. The fucked up thing is that it used to be even worse, but has slowly been improving with BIOS updates. The good news is that once it's up and running, this machine is ready to fuck. Programs open the second I click the icon and loading screens don't exist in games anymore. But it's still disappointing that AMD can't figure out how to make their shit boot faster.
It’s an issue with ddr5 memory checks. You can disable the checks but you might get instability.
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Edit I misread that, I thought you had a Zenbook not the AMD desktop lol 🙈
That's actually insane because mine is also an Asus Zenbook. It's the UX501 that I got at a liquidation sale, and I refuse to give this thing up because they really don't make them like this anymore.
I'll probably eventually move onto a Framework once this thing gives up the ghost, but I'm hoping for at least a few more years of use.
Yes but their RAM management (even though the desktop may use too much by default) seems way better.
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I still have my old laptop from college for whenever my PC is dead and I need a backup device. It's from 2008 and still has an HDD. There's Windows 7 installed and last time i booted it up the boot up time said 316 seconds. It's ridiculous.
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I don't understand why many desktop environments don't have a confirmation when you click one of those. Only ones I know that do it are GNOME and KDE
The confirmation is annoying for many GNU+Linux users. It's like asking are you sure you want to power off even though you had to use three or four keys or mouse clicks just to get to the poweroff menu.
It's not the total number of clicks that matters. It's the fact that several options (sleep, reboot, shut down) are the same final click and often a pixel or two away from each other.
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I think Cinnamon does that too.
On cinnamon: I click the power button in the menu, a pop up asks me what I want to do (suspend, restart, power off, cancel.)
I generally click suspend. There are no further pop ups.
Kids these days will never know the frustration of booting a PC on an ancient HDD. I'd turn on my laptop, go do something else for 3 minutes, log in, go do something else for everything to wake up, then I can start using it.
My MILs computer literally takes about 10-20 minutes to boot up. When I told her I'd help her upgrade it, she said she's fine with it. She turns it on and then does a load of laundry while she waits. It's painful.
Swap the drive and do a fresh install. It will run like new.
It's a good motivator to do laundry I guess 👀.
I still use HDD.
Get a SSD. It will run so much faster and everything will be instant.
I know, I used to use an SSD with a different laptop. But it doesn't bother me enough, especially since I reboot it like once a month.
But why??
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I am a cheapskate
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I am too lazy to replace it (one of those modern hard to open laptops)
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I am too lazy to test and clone a 1TB (or more) drive
I actually used an SSD before with an old laptop, but that only required removing 2 screws. As for cleaning out dust, I don't use it much anyway, mainly because I don't want to deal with cracking this open.
I am just looking at getting some used ThinkPad.
But anyway, most stuff can be done on a smartphone. On the other hand, I already killed 1 motherboard likely due to overheating while re-encoding videos to AV1 in Termux. It was replaced under warranty both times though. The second time it was just some issue with communicating with cameras. Yeah, I am on this phone's 3rd motherboard.
But anyway, it's a laptop. I reboot it like once a month when updating, so it's not a big deal.
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I've seen PCs that took something like 5 to 10 minutes to boot (xp era).
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