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I had the same problem, though not to the point of safety shutdown.

Fiddling with vgaswitcheroo and acpi settings mitigated the problem. My laptop is much cooler and silent now.

This has been the biggest pain point in Linux for me so far. I am wondering why these problems persists. They have a huge impact on the (non-)adoption of Linux/Ubuntu.

I'm considering making a donation to ubuntu to improve this situation. What do you think?

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I think you might rather donate to Debian, the distribution Ubuntu is based on. As far as I know, Ubuntu (and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu) does not commit a lot for upstream problems, so I do not know if it will be very efficient donating to them for this particular issue. By the way, I might encourage you to read this: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

Yes, I've read it, and it resonated quite strongly with my recently deteriorating ubuntu experience. The thing is, I don't feel like spending hours of system tuning on Debian like I used to do. Maybe I should give debian or gentoo another try and check if they fixed the problems they use to have. But this also takes time away from the funnier stuff like programming and creation.

> I am wondering why these problems persists.

Because hardware manufacturers do not care about linux compatibility or standards. They seemingly only care about windows compatibility. ACPI/DSDT woes are one reason I'm slightly interested in UEFI, which possibly could bring some clarity to the situation. Or at least less buggy implementations.

don't bother donating to ubuntu. they don't fix bugs. they just add new "features" instead that break so many other things you forget about the initial bug altogether. try out debian or linux mint or any other distro. ubuntu is for sadists.

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