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It is NOT the user's fault!

It is NOT the user's fault!

Posted Nov 11, 2007 14:58 UTC (Sun) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
In reply to: It is NOT the user's fault! by kevinbsmith
Parent article: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu

I hate english.

Anyway, I wanted to use "you" in the PoV of the HD.  I didn't mean "you, the human".

I very much doubt any user would want the most aggressive power management mode of the
hardware enabled by default.  It is annoying, it kills the hardware that much faster, and it
introduces a lot of latencies.  On the other hand, it is extremely useful when you know what
you are doing, and enable it on purpose...

This, of course, makes the whole deal of enabling it by default (done by whomever: distro or
platform vendor), worse.


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