Power management in all aspects is one big thing that I wish was better in all distros. Hibernate/fans/shorter battery life are real usability things. I only use windows when I am at risk of being fired for not using it and macos is 'acceptable' but there are soooo many little things that make me cringe about it (.DS_Store littering every drive I touch is close to the top) but if I knew I could get mac hardware, including MPS backend working well in pytorch and battery life, with a solid distro guaranteed to work I would definitely buy that over all the pc hardware out there.

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bee_rider 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Linux is more likely to have to deal with something like poor/nonexistent drivers that mean a device consumes extra power compared to Windows. But,

* cpupower is pretty nice for manual control of your clock speeds

* the diversity of window managers allows you to have something like a mostly-black UI, which can help on OLED screens. You can even invert the screen color in X, if your programs insist on rendering black-on-white.

* not randomly cranking up the CPU for some windows whatever scan thing saves some power

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greatgib 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My experience with mac is that yes it looks like to have longer battery life with less fan noise sometimes, but it might be by tricking you into a worse user experience of your machine.

For example, you computer to always go to kind of sleep when it is not necessarily what you want.

Like with the memory, you will not see app crashing upfront, but at some point macos stops all the other apps when you switch app. And like going from a web browser window, to a pdf, and back, or from a browser window to another, you will experience something like a 1s delay between your click and the window showing up from being minimized.

	▲	danhau 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I have not had this experience on my MB M2 Pro, although Safari can be quite sluggish.

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dijit 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Unfortunately, at the behest of Microsoft, manufacturers just came out with s2idle suspend and removed s3 suspend.

And it seems the only Microsoft has working support… so sleep issues continue to plague linux… again… after we just solved them.

It makes me so furious.

more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608991

	▲	trueismywork 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Even windows have huge issuee.