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Discussion on: Is using Linux really productive?

 
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Fernando Cordeiro

Funny enough, I get about 4 hours on Linux on my Inspiron, didn't use Windows all that much but I remember it didn't last as long.

Still, I use Arch so it may be the tweaking things. Since Arch doesn't do anything for you, tweaking things is basically what you have to do when installing, so obviously I have it turned for what I need...

Though a Macbook would be perfectly acceptable for me, if not for the fact I live in Brazil and here a Mac costs an arm and a leg, and maybe also a kidney or two...

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Oliver Dvorski

Should be interesting to see what this will look like if arm laptops go mainstream. Battery life with Linux on arm should be nice

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JoelBonetR 🥇

I'm a little sceptic about performance of ARM for heavy tasks, general purpose and multi-tasking. Yes there are supercomputers with ARM but they perform a little set of actions instead. Will see how it's managed on a close future for general purpose devices.

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Oliver Dvorski

Yep... time will tell