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The Mac vs. PC war is back on? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal.

I'm also curious why the comments are turned off for this article unless it is a paid ad for Microsoft.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (14 children)

I will never use a Windows laptop because it wakes up in the middle of the night to apply some stupid update, then glitches out, and can't go back to sleep. So every morning I find a laptop with a dead battery. Sometimes if I wake up early, it'll still be hot from whatever it was doing.

Fixing that stupid bug should have been easier than porting the whole OS and app stack and emulator to a new CPU arch. And I have no faith they fixed the bug anyway, so it'll probably still happen to ARM models. So no thank you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There was a video on LTT about this. From what I remember the conclusion was that if you shut down the laptop while connected to power, it remembers the fact and wakes up in the middle of the night to apply updates and shut down again, assuming the power cable will remain connected so there wouldn't be an impact on the battery. But of course, most people (I think) disconnect the power cable once the laptop is shut down. Windows still wakes up, sees the power cable disconnected, and goes 'oh well' and proceeds to update anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s also that “Shutdown” doesn’t shut the computer down. It puts it into a sleep mode so it will “boot” faster next time

The hibernation mode has more wake up sources than if it was actually off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that actually a windows thing though? I know i can set up that shit in the mobo's bios, from turning on the computer at specific times to keeping the peripherals on when shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It depends on the wake up source you’re talking about, but, yes

Your BIOS can configure the hardware, then Windows gets to modify parts of the configuration through ACPI

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