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The battery life (i.e. the backlight being either ON or OFF, without anything in between) is one of the biggest points that hinder moving to asahi for me. Ever
by chaxor 3y ago
The battery life (i.e. the backlight being either ON or OFF, without anything in between) is one of the biggest points that hinder moving to asahi for me.
Every time I open it up to try it out again, it's so bright that I try to reduce the brightness, which turns off the screen completely, which then has to be fixed by imagining what the screen state is and using hotkeys and typing out commands to get it back to full on blasting the sun out from the screen.
The selling point for this when usable IMO is having a laptop that will last 4x the (already insane) battery lifetime of macos, by having just a basic terminal and no default background processes that macos has.
- zamadatix 3y agoAdjustable brightness has been available for M1 devices for about a year now and I forget how long for M2. Before you go and install I'd wait for this Arch Linux ARM -> Fedora switch to finalize in the next couple of weeks though.
- ranguna 3y agoI know fedora will inherit the kernel changes the Asahi team is doing, but will the Asahi team fully switch to fedora?
- zamadatix 3y agoYes, they've run into too many upstream packaging problems with Arch Linux ARM (separate group from the main Arch group) so they do not feel they can provide a stable distribution based on it.
- SamuelAdams 3y agoYou might need to use Ashai-edge to get the latest features. Backlight control is one of them.