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  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mldo you miss anything from windows?
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    9 hours ago

    my current laptop is probably an extreme example since i get around 4 hours of battery life on default fedora 43 workstation, but almost 8 hours (DOUBLE) on windows 11.

    i’m aware that i can get longer battery life if i experiment with the power settings or try different power utilities (ie powertop), but i’ve learned from experience that the battery life will never be the same as it is using windows.

    i’ve also learned from experience that only open source firmware projects like (ie coreboot) can give you the battery performance that can rival windows and mac and i got to enjoy that by buying linux-first laptops vendors with open source firmware on it like system76, tuxedo, etc.

    the most irritating thing about the laptop i have now is that it will charge from 5% to 80% in 50 minutes when it’s running windows; but it takes almost 2 hours to do the same thing running fedora so i will probably buy from system76 again next time i need a new laptop. lol


  • i recommended this because i tried it once and it did work, however i learned the hard way that the image in the usb stick is different than the installed image and i had to use the usb stick’s image to find the exact module and configuration so that i could duplicate it on the installed image…fyi

    and it too was a realtek nic. lol






  • i miss the ease of buying new hardware.

    everything is optimized for windows and linux works on it too, but it’s not optimized and something about getting less performance than paid for irks me (especially w battery life).

    so every time i need to buy new hardware, i have to either spend weeks investigating potential purchases or i have to spend A LOT more money to buy from system76, tuxedo, etc.

    i didn’t do that this time around to learn what it’s like to put linux on a windows laptop like i used to do back in the early 2000’s and linux (of course) works, but its battery life is terrible compared to windows on the same laptop and my work macbook.

    next time i’ll buy from tuxedo.