Guess I’m putting linux back on my laptop… Only kept Windows 10 on it, on the rare occasion where having windows without having to spin up a VM was useful to begin with, so its not a major loss i guess.
Just hope battery managements gotten better than the last time I tried, cause god damn that really ruined my battery in no time.
Anecdotally, I’m running Kubuntu on a Dell 7280 with a 4 cell battery as my personal computer, which gets an hour or two of websurfing and home network experimentation per day, and I’m having to charge up once or twice a week. I dunno how that stacks up to other devices or distros, but I really barely think about my battery.
My laptop can last a solid 8 hours or more web browsing with windows.
when I put linux (ubuntu for the record) on it, it got a whopping 30 minutes before it needed charging. and it royally fucked my battery health to the point it wouldnt work without being plugged in to the power supply constantly (edit. after a week of use, to be clear, not instantly). Thankfully Dell replaced my laptop for unrelated warranty issue and I got a new one with a fresh new unfucked battery.
Did someone say it was connected to the Internet? You’re assuming that’s what’s happening. There are plenty of reasons to spin up an OS to test something that does not require the Internet. And I’ll even go a step further and say that the security updates may not even be needed depending on what you’re doing if you are connected to the Internet. Most security updates are to prevent things from happening after the user interacts with something. If you’re not interacting with these things and your PC isn’t in the DMZ then there isn’t much concern.
Guess I’m putting linux back on my laptop… Only kept Windows 10 on it, on the rare occasion where having windows without having to spin up a VM was useful to begin with, so its not a major loss i guess.
Just hope battery managements gotten better than the last time I tried, cause god damn that really ruined my battery in no time.
Anecdotally, I’m running Kubuntu on a Dell 7280 with a 4 cell battery as my personal computer, which gets an hour or two of websurfing and home network experimentation per day, and I’m having to charge up once or twice a week. I dunno how that stacks up to other devices or distros, but I really barely think about my battery.
My laptop can last a solid 8 hours or more web browsing with windows.
when I put linux (ubuntu for the record) on it, it got a whopping 30 minutes before it needed charging. and it royally fucked my battery health to the point it wouldnt work without being plugged in to the power supply constantly (edit. after a week of use, to be clear, not instantly). Thankfully Dell replaced my laptop for unrelated warranty issue and I got a new one with a fresh new unfucked battery.
Then you’re probably not going to need the security updates if that’s all you’re using it for.
Anything connected to the internet needs to be up to date for security fixes.
Did someone say it was connected to the Internet? You’re assuming that’s what’s happening. There are plenty of reasons to spin up an OS to test something that does not require the Internet. And I’ll even go a step further and say that the security updates may not even be needed depending on what you’re doing if you are connected to the Internet. Most security updates are to prevent things from happening after the user interacts with something. If you’re not interacting with these things and your PC isn’t in the DMZ then there isn’t much concern.
I love how you are getting offended because you think I’m making assumptions about how I use MY laptop.
Lol, oops. Either way, i stand by what i said. I spin up different OS’s and snapshots frequently without needing the Internet.