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I have an i7 one, and I mostly love it. The issues though, they irk. - I can't get over the battery life difference, it actually tempts me back to Windows. -
by buro9 10y ago
I have an i7 one, and I mostly love it. The issues though, they irk.
- I can't get over the battery life difference, it actually tempts me back to Windows.
- If you get the highest resolution screen I've found that not all programs in Linux handle the scaling correctly and if you don't scale the text is unreadably small. This is especially telling with notifications.
- If you have DisplayPort requirements you're going to be in trouble, there are few to no DP dongles and the ones that exist don't pass through USB Type-C and so you need multiple dongles off of dongles because there is only 1 USB Type-C.
- If you did go for the touchscreen version, the touchscreen doesn't seem to always work after waking from sleep.
Aside from those things, the Ubuntu install went smoothly with everything being recognised immediately and no need to muck around with anything.
Still... that battery. Makes me wonder whether I should switch to VMWare on Windows to run my Linux.
- rhodysurf 10y agoDid you try TLP and tuning with Powertop?
- buro9 10y agoPowertop I did not know about, just googled and it looks nice, will definitely investigate more. And the laptop is a few weeks old. I spent 24 hours on Windows just to see how it has changed as I haven't used Windows in about 5 years (used to be 50% Linux, 50% Windows, last 5 years 100% Linux). I didn't enjoy Windows, and sorely missed i3wm. But in it's favour, the scaling was perfect everywhere, the battery life really blew me away, and it the boot and shut down times were incredible. I was tempted, for a moment, to consider Hyper-V Linux on Windows 10 Ent, but just went Linux instead. Knowing it has that battery life under Windows means this temptation remains.
- ymse 10y ago`powertop --auto-tune` will turn all power-related settings to their most conservative settings. You can adjust them individually by running `powertop` interactively afterwards. I would love to see power estimates before and after that command! In my experience it increases battery time by 30-50%.
- karmajunkie 10y agoPlanning my next computer purchase and going full VMware on the surface is starting to seem like the best solution. Currently on MacBook Pro but that situation is just such a shitshow now. So aggravating that the closest we can get to a gold standard for a native Linux laptop is more like a bronze standard...
- Synroc 10y agoI run Linux VM on windows and would definitely say I got more battery life out of the machine. Not sure how it affects non-battery life performance as I haven't run anything intensive yet, but it was worth it for me.