> Sound always gives me trouble, and getting the power profiles right takes way too much work. Sounds like you've been using a distro with bad defaults and/or

> Sound always gives me trouble, and getting the power profiles right takes way too much work. Sounds like you've been using a distro with bad defaults and/or poorly supported hardware. I challenge you to use a decent distro like Fedora, on a well-supported hardware like a ThinkPad, and see if you have the same issues. Speaking as a ThinkPad Z13 + Fedora user who literally never had any audio or power profile issues... or any issue for that matter.