Chris Jones wrote: > Bart Samwel wrote: >>> Whose opinion is that? I would argue that it is, indeed the operating >>> system's place to save the user from themselves. >> ...and especially w.r.t. hardware, I might add! The OS is supposed to be > > You are actually all talking about "saving" users from their hardware > vendors, not themselves. They didn't set the APM behaviour.
ACK that, we are talking about a hardware problem here. And it's not Ubuntu's fault that the hardware slowly self-destructs. IMO the hardware vendors have fucked up royally here. Still, drivers in Linux are usually full of hacks to work around fuckups by hardware vendors. It's not much use pointing our fingers at the hardware vendors if the hardware is already out there, we should just work around the quirks like we always do... -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
