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I had a Thinkpad with Ubuntu and still had many of the problems you mention and more: - Barely ever waking from sleep, especially with external monitor connect
by odysseus 4y ago
I had a Thinkpad with Ubuntu and still had many of the problems you mention and more:
- Barely ever waking from sleep, especially with external monitor connected
- Screen brightness keyboard controls didn't work (needed to use a CLI tool to control gamma as a hacky workaround)
- Had to power cycle repeatedly to get to a desktop when booting
- Not working reliably in clamshell mode
- Randomly forgetting external monitor scaling
- Accessibility features like screen zooming are very poorly done compared to Mac's Ctrl-MouseWheel (which zooms entire screen without crashing)
Things actually got worse as I upgraded to newer kernels. The wake from sleep problem is the #1 productivity killer I had. I had to leave the machine running all the time just to do my job.
A good post on why Linux has so much trouble waking is:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386605
- bee_rider 4y agoSleep has become less of an issue recently, at least in my experience. Modern laptop CPUs idle in such a low power state. I just set up my built-in display to disable when the lid is closed. Seems sufficient.
- londons_explore 4y agoIf you leave it anywhere in a bag not plugged in, then you have to be constantly thinking 'I only have 30 hours left till the battery dies and I lose everything I had open'. Not a great feeling.
- bee_rider 4y agoI'm not 30 hours away from electricity very often, to the point where it wouldn't be a big deal to just save and shutdown, since it is a rare occasion. But I live a very predictable lifestyle, I guess if you are exploring London you probably end up in unexpected situations often.
- akvadrako 4y agoI've also had a recent Thinkpad X1 with Ubuntu and had several major issues, for example no working microphone for the first 6 months.