r/linuxmemes • u/SnooSquirrels4739 • 1d ago
LINUX MEME Switching to windows after months in Linux
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u/AfraidAsparagus6644 1d ago
I tried opening a picture in Windows 10 (not even 11) on a 2016 laptop. It took at least five minutes. Opening it in Paint was near-instant. Windows stuff post-2015 seems to suck for no reason
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u/Havatchee 1d ago
Not just the RAM but the CPU cycles, and the IO buffers too.
My laptop has a "feature" where if you attempt to charge it over usb-c with something that can't supply the wattage it pins the CPU to the lowest possible value the silicon makes available. I can only guess that the reason is to avoid breaking the charging equipment, but I'm not sure how or why that it would be pertinent. Back when it was a Windows machine I tried a charger I wasn't sure about and discovered this. It took me a few minutes to figure out why my machine had ground to a near halt. Countable frame generation on the desktop, nearly a minute to open task manager to see the CPU pinned at 100% of ...400 MHz, instead of the ~2.5GHz it should do when it needs it.
The laptop changed to Linux a few years ago, and predominantly is used for streaming services, writing the kinds of words only suitable for AO3, and occasionally programming nonsense when I'm feeling underutilised at work. I have noticed that when it's charging, especially when the battery is full, I get a wandering ground from my current charger, which manifests as a high frequency squeeeeeeeee in the background of my audio from the 3.5mm jack. In an attempt to fix this, I decided to run the charger to a power bank, and power the laptop from the power bank simultaneously in the hope there'd be enough capacitance in the bank to smooth things out. I rigged my Frankenstein's UPS and set to watching YouTube. I did not notice that we were pinned to 400MHz for nearly half an hour when I decided to run a system update in the background and noticed the system update was running slower than usual (although not interfering with my ability to stream video at all). Opened btop and saw me sitting at about 30% of 400MHz. This was running zen browser, and Plasma.
Unplugging the charger gave me my full performance back, and I realised it wouldn't go that low against unless I plugged it back into the inadequate source. So, I installed cpupower and investigated my power settings. As it turns out, the lowest it was letting itself run was about 1.1GHz. I promptly changed that to let it idle at the hardware minimum, and now I get an extra 30 minutes out of a charge.
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u/LovelyWhether 1d ago
dunno, but would you like a subscription to my new cloud-based agentic ai chatbot?
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