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I used to be bullish on Intel for laptops because throughout the 2010s they always had excellent ethernet, wifi, and integrated GPU support in Linux. I currentl
by bityard 4y ago
I used to be bullish on Intel for laptops because throughout the 2010s they always had excellent ethernet, wifi, and integrated GPU support in Linux. I currently switch between two older-gen Intel laptops (4 and 7 years old) and they both run Linux pretty much flawlessly for everything I need. Suspend/resume works every time, good battery life, external display through a _real_ hardware dock (not USB/Thunderdolt).
Right now, I'm scared to upgrade to anything newer just based on the sheer number of problems I keep hearing about laptops that run hot with atrocious battery life, and non-functional or at least unpredictable suspend/resume behavior, and heaven help if you want to use two non-identical displays. For a while there, Linux often had earlier and better support for mainstream hardware than Windows. It's sad to see that trend regressing, I wonder what's causing it.
Do AMD-based laptops have any of the power management (battery life) and suspend/resume issues that have plagued recent Intel chipsets?
- filmgirlcw 4y ago> Do AMD-based laptops have any of the power management (battery life) and suspend/resume issues that have plagued recent Intel chipsets? Battery life is better. Suspend/resume stuff is still a problem. And yes, there does seem to have been a regression with Linux support earlier in the hardware lifecycle than Windows. Not sure when it started, but it’s a trend I’ve noticed over the last 3 years or so.
- bubblethink 4y agoMost of these sleep/suspend issues are related to deprecation of the old s3 sleep method and migration to the new s0ix sleep stuff for modern standby.