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To be fair the power management issue is pretty much a niche issue at this point. Sure if you run closed down hardware like a Mac book don't except your drivers

by herbst 4y ago

To be fair the power management issue is pretty much a niche issue at this point. Sure if you run closed down hardware like a Mac book don't except your drivers to work from day 1. If you go for a ThinkPad however there are usually no issues. Plus you can usually fix the power issues by just installing the right drivers or disable one or two well documented settings

KirillPanov 4y ago
The secret trick for flawless power management and sleep on Linux is to buy a Chromebook and put Linux on it. They're natively Linux machines to begin with. All the manufacturer-coded power management stuff is upstream in the mainline kernel already.
bpfrh 4y ago
thinkpads do have issues... S3 was disabled on some models which meant for the first 6 months of release you couldn't go to sleep. The new thinkpad yoga x gen 10 uses a intel webcam which uses a special binary blob and doesn't work out of the box, but only if you buy it with windows installed, which makes for a fun game of "does-this-laptop-support-linux-out-of-the-box" The thinkpad x1 carbon gen. 6 has problems when waking up: * Sometimes not waking up until you plug in a power problem * Sometimes having to disable/enable the trackpad to make all buttons work again. I'm quite happy with using linux on my devices, but many modern thinkpads have issues. Edit: didn't want to sound aggressive
- herbst 4y ago
  True, I should have specified the T series and even then the most recent models don't have perfect driver support
heleninboodler 4y ago
My linux ThinkPad has a roughly 25% chance of failing to sleep when I close the lid, causing it to go from 100% battery to completely dead the next day when I take it out of my bag. I've caught it not even turning off the screen sometimes (you can see the glow through the crack).

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To be fair the power management issue is pretty much a niche issue at this point. Sure if you run closed down hardware like a Mac book don't except your drivers

by herbst 4y ago

KirillPanov 4y ago
The secret trick for flawless power management and sleep on Linux is to buy a Chromebook and put Linux on it. They're natively Linux machines to begin with. All the manufacturer-coded power management stuff is upstream in the mainline kernel already.
bpfrh 4y ago
thinkpads do have issues... S3 was disabled on some models which meant for the first 6 months of release you couldn't go to sleep. The new thinkpad yoga x gen 10 uses a intel webcam which uses a special binary blob and doesn't work out of the box, but only if you buy it with windows installed, which makes for a fun game of "does-this-laptop-support-linux-out-of-the-box" The thinkpad x1 carbon gen. 6 has problems when waking up: * Sometimes not waking up until you plug in a power problem * Sometimes having to disable/enable the trackpad to make all buttons work again. I'm quite happy with using linux on my devices, but many modern thinkpads have issues. Edit: didn't want to sound aggressive
- herbst 4y ago
  True, I should have specified the T series and even then the most recent models don't have perfect driver support
heleninboodler 4y ago
My linux ThinkPad has a roughly 25% chance of failing to sleep when I close the lid, causing it to go from 100% battery to completely dead the next day when I take it out of my bag. I've caught it not even turning off the screen sometimes (you can see the glow through the crack).