> microsoft deleted my acpi tables =C My first Linux experience was on a garbage-picked laptop I got for free because it had broken power management on Windows

> microsoft deleted my acpi tables =C My first Linux experience was on a garbage-picked laptop I got for free because it had broken power management on Windows I think in its case, the hardware was somehow damaged and Linux just fell back to APM instead of ACPI, so the technical details are different but there's something nostalgic and funny to me about the prospect that this kind of thing could become a pattern :)