After watching Dankpods’s new video I wonder how nobody’s talking about Gigabyte purposefully crippling performance of their laptops if you boot Linux.
Either nobody’s buying their rubbish… or nobody noticed that if you add acpi_os_name="Windows 2021" to your kernel parameters you suddenly get much better performance.
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