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Can you really blame them for that?

• yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago
  Yes. Easily. If you proclaim up front that a device is "Linux first", it seems reasonable to suggest that maybe you should tell us about its performance on Linux.
  • IshKebab 7mo ago
    Yeah I mean I don't think they want to say because the numbers are going to be bad, and it's probably not within their power to fix it. They should probably give the Linux numbers after the Windows ones at least tbf, even if they are bad.
    • snarkconjecture 7mo ago
      I am much more likely to fault them for omitting important information specifically to hide a weak point of the product rather than out of laziness.
      • IshKebab 7mo ago
        It's not a weak point of their product; it's a weak point of Linux.
        • yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago
          It's really not. Leaving aside Android because that has a very different userspace, Chromebooks have excellent battery life even when not running ChromeOS, because they have proper drivers and someone actually bothered optimizing for power efficiency. And there are plenty of cases of people switching a machine from Windows to some Linux distro and significantly improving battery life (see elsewhere in this comment section). So no, if a given laptop is described as the vendor as "Linux first" and has poor battery life, that's on them.