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tlirsgender:

Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal.
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that’s why they don’t experience mental illness. A phone problem is like “out of storage :(” or “charging port broke”. Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness.
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it’s like “I can’t feel my legs”. And you tell it girl you never had any.

  • spacesatanEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Surprised everyone is blaming windows. Maybe I just have bad luck but almost all of my laptop problems have been hardware or firmware related. Although windows certainly doesn’t help the battery life when it decides to just ignore power rules and I open the laptop to find it never reacted to closing the lid and it has just enough charge left to flash ‘battery low please plug in’ before dying on 0%.

    • expr@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      My Arch install is still chugging along on my Dell XPS 13 from 2017, and I’ve noticed no difference whatsoever.

      Windows machines definitely don’t last as long, though I think a massive part of that is the ever increasing piles of steaming shit they keep piling into Windows every update. That’s bad down to make any machine appear like it’s slowing to a crawl.

    • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I haven’t owned a MS Windows laptop in more than a decade. The ghosts exist on Linux, too.

      But, I feel like I have more control over my Linux than I ever did over MS Windows, so I’ve been able to keep a Debian installation on my desktop working great (not without problems, but still my preferred computer to use) since Nov 2007. (Sometimes the filesystems are live migrated to other storage, sometimes the storage is moved to a different case or main board, but the installation continues.)

      Laptops, I honestly use less, but I often swap out whatever distro (if any) the come with to Debian (because I know it best), acknowledge any limitations that brings, and use them until the battery life gets too short or the CPU gets too slow. Even then, they still always feel more “haunted” than desktops. I think that mostly comes down to less control/planning on components specifically for Debian. (I built my own desktop.)

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        Maybe you feel you have more control because Linux doesn’t rearrange the whole OS behind your back, and surprise now it doesn’t go to sleep when closed and chokes to death in your non-ventilated backpack …

        • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          debconf does take time during upgrades, but at least it tells me before it messes with the OS configuration. So, yes, there’s something to be said for that.

          (Of course, technically a dpkg can do anything, as root, during pre/post-install/removal so it’s a social convention more than a technical difference.)