Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive

wwrmn writes "There's a debate going on over at bugs.launchpad.net on whether it's the Ubuntu, BIOS, hard-drive manufacturer, or pick-any-player's fault, but Ubuntu (and perhaps any OS) may be dramatically shortening the life of your laptop's hard drive due to an aggressive power-saving feature / acpi bug / OS configuration. Regardless of where the fault lies or how it's fixed, you might want to take some actions now to try to prevent the damage."

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Try PCLinuxOS

[bogaboga]

If these claims are right, I urge folks to try PCLinuxOS. Having tried it two weeks ago, I can say that I am very very impressed. In fact, I find it better than all other Linux distros I have tried.

Distrowatch http://www.distrowatch.com/ says it too, which means others agree.

Re:AHA! :D

[Killjoy_NL]

heh, Vista is ok for me for now, wouldn't use it in the workplace yet though.

2 Cool things:

Aero (for 10 minutes, then I went back to classic)
Nice volume manager (better than the one in XP)

and for now it has been as stable as a rock, all my hardware was supported.

Me co-worker though, he hates it with a vengeance, he is very annoyed by all the confirmations it asks for, even though he knows how to turn it off, he's always thinking about how a "normal" user would respond to this experience. I completely understand that, but for personal use, it's fine just now.