I am sure you do not worry as much about other "brands" in your life :), given that HLL, P&G and J&J probably rule your life :) without you knowing it.
So really, try using a computer that makes your life simpler, better and just easier to deal with [Throw in happy, if you can]. Is that not what technology is about ? Rest all this are in my opinion secondary. If you find windows good, stick to it ! Same if linux works for you. Coolness lasts only for sometime. Cheers, Dipankar On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:44 PM, siddharth srivastava <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > Just sharing a small incident of influence of M$ on hardware. > I have been suffering with overheating of my Dell laptop for about over a > month. It occurs(yeah still occurs) only with linux and not with windose. > Earlier I thought it was a kernel issue but now I have figured out that > the problem looks like that the acpi bios seems to be compiled with m$ > compiler, though iasl for linux only reports certain optimizations only but > a deep insight into dsdt.dsl indicates this or at least have m$ influence > over it heavily. > It seems that manufacturers are forced to comply by m$ otherwise they'll > have to pay the "microsoft tax" in terms of getting blacklisted for > distributing windose or create some other problems for them (I am not much > aware of businees ethics :D ) > Some findings and discussions have lead to this conclusion that some > manufacturers have been duped into allowing there acpi code to be compiled > by m$ compiler > -- > Siddharth Srivastava > > When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will > be time for you to leave. > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
