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I didn't have any issue with Wifi and sleep on my home Dell XPS 13 9380 running Arch. As for the battery, well I followed the arch wiki recommendations (add a k
by bengalister 7y ago
I didn't have any issue with Wifi and sleep on my home Dell XPS 13 9380 running Arch. As for the battery, well I followed the arch wiki recommendations (add a kernel startup parameter, and use tlp) and it is ok now but it does not just work out of the box.
It is still not on par with Windows (I kept it just in case). I get around 8-9 hours of battery life on Windows while on Linux it is more like 6-7 hours. But it is mostly due to the fact that Chrome/Chromium and Firefox don't support hardware acceleration on Linux and I watch quite a lot of youtube videos. There is a Chromium that uses the video acceleration API (VAAPI) but it comes from the user arch repository, there is now also a snap package (I haven't yet fully tried them).
- tluyben2 7y agoAll my Linux devices do a lot better under Linux than under Windows; Lenovo X220, MS Surface and GPD Pocket all run both but battery life is miles ahead of Windows for my use (programming and browsing for programming). I use Ubuntu with i3wm. i3wm is, I think, where most of the difference comes from; it is very light. And, imho, much easier to work with than mouse driven stuff.