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The Final Daily Driver Desktop OS I end With

My story of whirlwind operation system switching across Windows, MacOS, and Linux in one week

Andrew Zhu
8 min readNov 16, 2024

After several days of attempting to switch my primary operating system from Windows 11 to an alternative, I experimented with Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, MacOS (Silicon chip), and Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon. Ultimately, I settled on Windows 10. Despite its seemingly outdated interface, Windows 10 resolved all the issues I had encountered previously. For the foreseeable future, I plan to continue using it.

The following reasons, which may also be applicable to you, could save you some time if you find yourself in a similar situation.

Why did I want to move away from Windows 11?

Over the past year, I’ve been using Windows 11 on a high-performance machine equipped with an Intel I9–13900k processor, 64GB DDR5 memory, and an NVidia RTX 4090 graphics card. Initially, the system performed well, with one exception — it wouldn’t enter a complete power-off sleep state. Despite selecting the “sleep” option, the machine’s fans continued to spin. I tried updating GPU drivers and implementing other potential solutions, but nothing resolved the issue. Consequently, I had to resort to using the hibernate function daily. Given the…

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Andrew Zhu
Andrew Zhu

Written by Andrew Zhu

Working on AI stuffs | a HF Diffusers contributor | a ex-Data Scientist@MS | His LinkedIn is www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-zhu-23407223/

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