I made the switch to Linux Mint and it’s wonderful and almost triples my battery life. I’m also in the process of switching to a phone with graphene os which runs like butter and feels so much more secure, safe and private.

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elboru a day ago | parent | next [-]

It's been three months since I switched to Arch. I've had a couple of hiccups that I couldn't resolve with an agent, or that I simply didn't want to spend too much time troubleshooting. Other than that, performance has been absolutely amazing. My terminal and browser open in milliseconds, not seconds. Even the heavy system I work on builds and loads in seconds instead of minutes. If I don't like a particular configuration, I can simply ask my agent to change it. Linux is GREAT in the agent era.

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tapland a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Battery gains on laptops are insane. Swapped a month ago on one, still need windows stuff on the other, but same model and one last all day and one has to be plugged in each session.

	▲	cowlevel 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		and that's crazy because traditionally Linux would drain your battery faster because it was lacking all the power optimisations. It still is, but windows must've gotten so bloated it's worse now.

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thirtygeo 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Loving Mint as well! Just switched a second PC over from win 11

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pndy 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I tried few distros including Mint but in the end CachyOS was one that works for me best. But I still got this W11 virtual machine where I can see how the system "evolves", and it still baffles me that Microsoft has the audacity to throw message saying "Windows Update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions" and having "Energy recommendations" that "Lower your carbon footprint" where background processes continue to drain machine resources at random intervals since W10