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Yeah this. My old 3700X rig would need to be power cycled 3-4 times before it booted. This turned out to be the Radeon GPU I chucked in it inflaming the boot sequence in some way. Put an nvidia one in and it was fine. The Radeon worked fine on another machine.

Own an M1 MacBook Pro now and never looked back at the hell of custom built PCs favourably.

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I have an M1 MacBook Pro and software is annoying me on a daily basis. In contrast, my AMD builds and laptops have been solid.

New AMD GPU releases are crapfor a while. They're getting better fast, though

Annoying edges perhaps but as far as reliability goes, this MacBook Pro is the most reliable thing I've had since windows 2000 on an old Intel 440BX board. That's been a hell of a long journey of crap.

I get the feeling that computers are more and more picky when it comes to working with different components.

I have two HP laptops, both supporting DisplayPort alt-mode over USB-C. I have Windows 11 and arch Linux on both, up-to-date. My USB dock's display out works at 4k@60 with both Linuxes, but only one windows. Go figure.

Yeah I had this problem as well with my old Dell and Windows. Also weird problems with high DPI displays and window sizes. If I unplugged one monitor, the other one would drop for a second and then the menu bars would shrink on the still plugged in display.

Now I have a studio display. Get out of box, plug it in, works. Open laptop, spans display instantly. Unplug, windows move to the laptop. Never goes wrong. No bugs.

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