▲ | mrheosuper 3 days ago | |
i'm the opposite of you, i'm so done with Linux on my laptop. I can't count how many time my machine cooks itself inside my bag when using Linux. Windows also has the same problem, but much less frequently. Now if i want linux, WSL2, and if i want linux graphic, Vmware or something similar | ||
▲ | vladvasiliu 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Well, this just means PCs are all over the place and it's hard to know what you get beforehand. My experience is the exact opposite. When I let my laptop running windows sleep overnight, in the morning it's warm. Under Linux, it's room-temperature. I rarely run Windows on it, so there's no checking for mail or whatever in the background, I only have 2-3 games, Prime Video and Lightroom installed. It's also kept up to date, so no updates to install. But, at least it now wakes back up. Up until a few months ago, it would randomly freeze up or die and reboot and get stuck at the Linux ZFS decryption prompt (I dual boot, and Linux is first). This is a 2020 model laptop, which didn't work under a fresh Windows install out of the box. The webcam wasn't working for a good 3 years (apparently some USB chip wasn't detected). The only issue I have under Linux is that the mic mute LED sometimes turns off even though the mic is muted. It's a standard-fare HP Enterprise, no dual GPU or anything fancy. | ||
▲ | rs186 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I have seen that with both Linux and Windows. And there are bugs like this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1808039 that prevents sleep on Windows, but somehow does not exist on Chrome, or when you use Linux/Mac. I have determined that if battery is really important for a certain occasion, I just manually power the laptop off. Thankfully, these days laptops are fast enough to start make it tolerable. Of course, I can't understand why Microsoft or Linux distribution contributors along with software vendors never manage to truly "fix" such important usability issues. | ||
▲ | crinkly 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Yeah been there. My company issue laptop cooked itself to death once in my bag when I was on the train to a customer. I was pleasantly surprised when I bought a Mac (M1 MBP) a few years ago. It doesn't have all the idiot behaviours that Windows and Linux seems to have. It's so boring. It just works. If the Linux/Windows folk can nail that quality down it'd be nice but I have my doubts it'll ever happen (after trying for about 30 years!) | ||
▲ | okanat 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Microsoft has contributed to Mesa for DirectX tunneling drivers. WSL2 supports GPU HW acceleration out of the box. |