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It would be nice to be able to purchase a Linux laptop with proper power management. I haven’t used a Linux laptop in a long time, but when I did, I found it d
by daft_pink 2y ago
It would be nice to be able to purchase a Linux laptop with proper power management. I haven’t used a Linux laptop in a long time, but when I did, I found it didn’t manage different power modes well at all. I feel that’s the main drawback to a Linux laptop, so if arm chips fixed that it would be awesome.
- heywire 2y agoMy Latitude 7370 is just about perfect. With gnome power profiles, I can easily switch between power saver, balanced, and performance, suspend/resume works fine. All peripherals work out of the box. It has a crisp 3200x1800 touchscreen that works great under Gnome. It is pretty much my perfect Linux laptop. I only wish the battery life was better, and that it had a more powerful CPU. It is fanless, so it throttles pretty quickly under load. I ran some tests, and completely idle at 30% brightness I can get 7h under Linux and 8h under Windows, so Linux still has some room for improvement. But as someone who uses Windows at work, there is no way I could go back to that personally. Not unless they released an open source version completely cleaned of crapware and bloat. The Enterprise / IOT versions are the closest I’ve come to that.
- nutrie 2y agoThis is one of the main reasons I use Pop! on my Thinkpad. Their power management works great out of the box, I get three times the battery life compared to Win 10. Suspend often doesn't work properly, but to me, that's a minor issue, likely hw related.