Tell me why a windows laptop struggles to get two hours of battery life and heats up hotter than a bonfire. Whereas an ancient laptop running Linux I can get four to five hours no problem and it stays cool??? #asknostr
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Ancient Linux laptop is not running high frequency, lots of memory, large nvme disks and a power Hungary GPU......
Part of it but I love how you boot into both and Linux will sip a little ram at idle where windows will use 1/3 just to idle... So much bloat and spyware to run
Planned obsolescence exists
Windows has a big job to do, and it takes a lot of compute.
First it has to keep itself updated in the background, which requires it to reach out to Microsoft activating the WiFi chip repeatedly.
Then it needs to pop up things on the users screen to take away focus from whatever you are actually trying to do.
Next it needs to scan every file as you open it to make sure its not virus (or hasn't been exempted from scan by a virus).
It also needs to dig through all your files to upload them to the cloud.
It needs to watch each keystroke to collect words for relevant advertising popups (everyone likes relevant advertising, right?)
It needs to take repeated screenshots in case someone at Microsoft needs to dig through your use history and figure out what's going on.
AI needs to see what's running so it can build a list of things to sell you next and also to know what to tell the NSA about you (its about keeping you safe, you know, and everyone wants to be safe).
Obviously, its very busy. Should give windows a break, it deserves all that compute so it can accomplish its job of selling you, as the product.
