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“Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster…” quote by Linus Torvalds — Download Open image

“Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.”

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