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I had an xps 13 9300 and struggled with battery life on any Linux distro ( tried fedora, Ubuntu, pop, elementary, solus, Arch, void ) and I'm not a beginner or
by endigma 4y ago
I had an xps 13 9300 and struggled with battery life on any Linux distro ( tried fedora, Ubuntu, pop, elementary, solus, Arch, void ) and I'm not a beginner or anything. Even with combinations of tlp, powertop, gnome power profiles, kernel shit to make it run lower speed.
Framework is really nice from a hardware perspective, but the display res is wonky with scaling, 100% is small and 200% is big, which puts you in the no no zone on most display servers which employ fractional scaling. MacOS is the only I've ever used that doesn't completely butcher oddball scales. Battery life I've observed to be around 4 hours of light usage on stock fedora. (11th gen main board)
I personally run a new MacBook Pro M1 running any Linux I want in Lima or parallels, depending on GUI needs. Damn thing is god tier on battery, outlasts any other laptop I've ever owned by a factor of 3 at least.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoI currently have a Dell XPS 13 9300 and have had no issues with it, including battery life running Ubuntu.
- dijit 4y ago> no issues with it, including battery life Depends on your definition of issues though, I prefer linux to be perfectly honest but the MacBook Air I have has changed my mentality about battery life. I literally do not look for outlets anymore; I use the machine for the whole day and I charge it at night like my phone. If that's what the competition is then the 5hrs I used to get with my 97Wh battery on my Precision 5520 is definitely "an issue", because 3.5hours in I start getting battery anxiety.