Another example: Samsung Galaxy S5 was waterproof and had an easily user-replaceable battery (back cover designed to be removed). Galaxy S6 was neither waterproof nor had a user replaceable battery.
Yeah my desktop is still fine after 6 years. Only upgrade i got was a free 8 gb of ram from a friend who built a new pc. I've also gotten SSDs as I've upgraded OS's. My coworkers don't understand why I haven't built a new computer yet but the fact is I haven't ran into anything that it can't handle comfortably yet, so why bother.
With laptops we still are at that point, partially due to horrible software. Battery life is still really bad on laptops, and it keeps getting better as tech improves. It would already probably be adequate if it was not for the fact that nearly all software is horrible, and literally every PC operating system is deeply flawed and horrible on laptops.
Battery life in modern devices would be phenomenal if they kept battery sizes the same while reducing the power consumption of all the components, but they decided cutting battery size was acceptable in order to make a smaller/lighter laptop. Where’s the 96Wh, 9-cell battery in a <15W ULV notebook? Oh right, best we can do now is like 45Wh non-removable.
Linux is terrible if you aren't super into software. I use computers way way more than most people because they are extremely useful tools for my work and several of my hobbies, and I despise how often stuff breaks in Linux. Some of the more bloated distributions aren't as bad in this respect, but they have issues on laptops because of the bloat.
I already have a desk top pc that I use for gaming and stuff and just need a laptop that can handle internet and word processing. How is Linux for the simple things?
It depends on how simple. If all you wanna do is watch videos, type stuff up, and do email stuff, it's easy. But if you wanna do something still simple but slightly less so, like plug in two microphones at once, or install a free lightweight game, or record your screen and then edit what you recorded to show someone how to do something, or edit audio beyond what is easy in Audacity, etc, it becomes annoying and complicated and nothing works without hacks and workarounds for every step of the process.
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Another example: Samsung Galaxy S5 was waterproof and had an easily user-replaceable battery (back cover designed to be removed). Galaxy S6 was neither waterproof nor had a user replaceable battery.
Yeah my desktop is still fine after 6 years. Only upgrade i got was a free 8 gb of ram from a friend who built a new pc. I've also gotten SSDs as I've upgraded OS's. My coworkers don't understand why I haven't built a new computer yet but the fact is I haven't ran into anything that it can't handle comfortably yet, so why bother.
With laptops we still are at that point, partially due to horrible software. Battery life is still really bad on laptops, and it keeps getting better as tech improves. It would already probably be adequate if it was not for the fact that nearly all software is horrible, and literally every PC operating system is deeply flawed and horrible on laptops.
Battery life in modern devices would be phenomenal if they kept battery sizes the same while reducing the power consumption of all the components, but they decided cutting battery size was acceptable in order to make a smaller/lighter laptop. Where’s the 96Wh, 9-cell battery in a <15W ULV notebook? Oh right, best we can do now is like 45Wh non-removable.
how is linux doing on laptops?
Linux is terrible if you aren't super into software. I use computers way way more than most people because they are extremely useful tools for my work and several of my hobbies, and I despise how often stuff breaks in Linux. Some of the more bloated distributions aren't as bad in this respect, but they have issues on laptops because of the bloat.
I already have a desk top pc that I use for gaming and stuff and just need a laptop that can handle internet and word processing. How is Linux for the simple things?
It depends on how simple. If all you wanna do is watch videos, type stuff up, and do email stuff, it's easy. But if you wanna do something still simple but slightly less so, like plug in two microphones at once, or install a free lightweight game, or record your screen and then edit what you recorded to show someone how to do something, or edit audio beyond what is easy in Audacity, etc, it becomes annoying and complicated and nothing works without hacks and workarounds for every step of the process.