• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I once ran the windows Troubleshooter to get an old scanner working, and the final page told me to but a new scanner!

    I plugged it in to a mini PC I use as a backup server and the scanner worked fine with Linux.

    And another recommendation issue: I noticed that my Windows laptop has a “reduce your carbon footprint” settings section that tells me to reduce power settings, screen brightness etc. but it’s completely lacking a “stop giving me AI search results in Bing” section.

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      29 days ago

      Switching from Windows to Linux on my Framework laptop makes my battery last 2-3 times as long. They should just have a switch to Linux recommendation to reduce your carbon footprint.

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        29 days ago

        Are you using a framework 13? While I find the battery life to be usable, if it’s that much worse on Windows I’m not sure I would have gotten a framework if I used windows lol.