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"Good battery life" is not my measure of good power management. I can leave my windows laptop sitting out, it will sensibly turn off the screen and eventually h
by lukeschlather 4y ago
"Good battery life" is not my measure of good power management. I can leave my windows laptop sitting out, it will sensibly turn off the screen and eventually hibernate, I don't need to worry about it. A Linux laptop will need babying when it's not plugged in.
- trelane 4y agoNot necessarily
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoYes it’s horrible when I’m not plugged in and you have to shutdown before closing the lid for transportation. But if you want off windows and aren’t willing to go Mac, you take what you can get.
- trelane 4y ago> Yes it’s horrible when I’m not plugged in and you have to shutdown before closing the lid for transportation. Why? Does it not hibernate?
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoNo it does not. If you’re not careful you’ll open your laptop bag to a hot and barely touchable laptop.
- trelane 4y agoOuch.
- likeclockwork 4y agoThey usually suspend when the lid is closed by default rather than hibernating.
- str34m 4y agoGnome has power management features like that, didn't even enable them. It's the most installed DE I think, so your characterization of Linux is pretty off. I like Gnome and its newest incarnation Gnome 40, but at least on Nixos it has some issues so I often rebuild to an i3-based environment instead.