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Generalization that Windows has better "power management, suspend/resume and hibernate and driver support" is grossly wrong. Noob friendly Linux distributions like Ubuntu provide excellent support of all the points you mention.

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They really don't. Suspend doesn't always wake up all devices, different kernel releases break hibernate completely. Also Ubuntu just disabled hibernate for a vast chunk of time. It's never worked properly. And don't get me started on all the playing around you have to do with powertop to get usable battery life.

And that is Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) noob friendly edition on standard Intel Centrino hardware.

Hibernate is a good point. But on my Samsung Series 5 ultrabook, Ubuntu 13.04 got better battery life, out of the box, than Windows 8 did.

So maybe you can explain to me why Ubuntu 12.04 LTS hangs on hibernate on my Asus Netbook.

Yeah, it doesn't work for me, so it must not work for everyone.

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> Noob friendly Linux distributions like Ubuntu provide excellent support of all the points you mention.

When was the last time you heard a Windows user complain that hibernate hung for them every time?

Windows has its share of problems[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Rqwwth84

Red Hat 5.1 (May 1998) probably had a lot more problems than modern Linux as well.

Well! Growing popularity of Linux based consumer products and entry of Steam, GOG, Cryengine, etc. on traditional Linux systems must be an indicator of something. Let's leave at that.

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