Kinda true though. I wish Framework would focus on power usage a bit. As much as I love the concept and laptop the battery life is not one of its strong points. I’ve done a lot of tuning and squeeze about 6-7 hrs out at ~40% screen brightness.
IIRC framework is working on addressing the expansion card issue via firmware/BIOS but it’s been a while since I’ve seen any updates.
I generally lose 20-40% battery overnight with USBC and USBA in deep sleep mode. But I have set up hibernate in the past and had it working.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate
You’re probably missing a swap position or file. Modern Linux distro don’t really support hibernate out of the box.
Also depending on ports you can have worse sleeping power draw. All USB C will give you the best battery life.
That’s fair, I was kinda thinking base power generation by nuclear and solar/wind for peaks. But the solar and wind probably wouldn’t be reliable enough so would still need some gas in the mix.
I don’t think it’s one or the other. Nuclear is part of a comprehensive green energy plan. That’s because nuclear is the only thing that can currently fill the gap left by coal or gas. Solar and wind need extensive battery infrastructure to be effective in this regard. Mass battery plants will also cause some form of generational waste. Coal and gas cause massive generational waste and coal ash is radioactive.
Obviously solar and wind are going to be safer but nuclear being safe and dangerously radioactive is both true and depends on how well the plant is managed and how old it is. Nuclear accidents rightfully get a lot of coverage but a well run reactor is pretty clean. How does the environmental damage stack up in kW/damage vs coal and oil?
Hydro is pretty great though. And I guess fusion if that ever goes anywhere.
Not OP but I’m looking forward to a really insignificant bug fix. When I open a context menu on my second monitor that uses a different scaling it flickers and the background drops out. It’s just visual and I almost never use that context menu but knowing it’s there bothers me. Per the bug report I filed it was planned to be resolved with the other Wayland fixes in v6.
Can’t they just do this by switching to a TTY? (Ctrl + alt + F1, F2…) Might be less work than chrooting.
Anecdotally I’ve been dual booting Windows 11/Linux on my laptop for a couple years and I’ve never had issues with Windows affecting the boot partition and I feel like this is much less common with EFI. You can even have a separate EFI partition for Linux and choose boot order from the BIOS.
I’ve always done partition based dual booting since I first started using Linux and the last time I remember having an issue with Windows fucking with boot setup was like early/mid 2010s and it’s only happened a couple times in like 10 years of on and off dual booting.
No no, those men audit giants. There’s a lot of fraudsters out there telling tall tales.
Sounds like this guy compiz cubes
I got into Linux because I used a shitty Acer laptop in middle school and I couldn’t stand how slow it was. Somehow I ended up stumbling on some article or video about Linux being faster and installed Ubuntu WUBI (I think that’s what it was called, it let you install Ubuntu in Windows). Then I found myself on IRC and became a distrohopper for a few years.
When I was younger I was probably obsessed and proselytized a bit but not so much anymore. An OS is just a tool and people should use what works best for them to solve the problems they have at the time.
But I still daily drive Linux so I guess it’s my preferred tool.
It’s not very expandable and very underpowered but I’ve been using an Odroid HC-4 with Armbian and a separate compute server for a while. It’s a decent budget option.
Haha, fair enough, I feel that. I’ve been procrastinating on my home lab maintenance.
I like EndeavourOS (Arch based) and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (or Gecko Linux). But if you prefer sticking with apt based distro Debian Sid is a rolling release.
If it isn’t encrypted you should be able to mount the Windows partition from Ubuntu
Kind of… The problem with full DEs like GNOME and KDE is that they pull in a lot of dependencies and make a lot of changes. So it can break visuals or change icons in each others environments or install apps with duplicate functions. Something like i3 has a lot less clutter because it expects the user to build their own environment.
The best way to try out KDE would be to install it under a new user on your system so it doesn’t conflict with your original home directory. Or you could boot up a live image of Kubuntu or some other KDE flavored Linux distro and mess around with it a bit to see if you want to commit to it.
While you can install KDE on mint without issues (apt install kde-plasma-desktop) I would recommend installing a KDE focused distro because sometimes they have better default configs.
But Plasma should be able to do win + arrow keys out of the box and current versions of Plasma should have basic tiling functions by dragging a window around and holding shift. If there’s anything you don’t like it’s a very configurable platform.
Self driving carts, probably too expensive
Probably not what you’re looking for but this behavior works very well on KDE Plasma.
Yeah, but with a light workload (browsing, some videos, office applications). It lasts longer than Windows where I get like 5 hours.