Bluetooth on linux continues to suck however - it sucks a bit on windows too but it has been unusable on a few of my linux laptops.
Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
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Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#22Uhm, how about suspension/hibernate? That was pretty lame even 2 years ago and I'm not seeing it improve
With my 3 years old work Dell, I can't say that it has improved in any way. Suspended laptop basically scrapes over the week-end, a 3 day week-end will see me booting from shutdown on the first morning.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#23> works so well
so long as one doesn't need a working fingerprint reader, otherwise too bad
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#24I installed PopOS (I know there’s some absurd punctuation involved in the name but I don’t remember what it is) on my 5 year old MacBook Pro and it feels like a brand new machine. The UX feels better to me than MacOS which is starting to feel more and more like Windows imo.
>> PopOS (I know there’s some absurd punctuation involved in the name but I don’t remember what it is)
It is: Pop!_OS
It basically a customized Ubuntu with perfect driver support for System76 hardware.
I use it on a 2015 Meerkat (https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat) and it works great.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#25I agree largely with this (as another T420 owner). My only problem is finding new, high-quality battery packs.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#26Recently installed Linux on my 2011 MacBook Air and loving it. Faster than MacOS and all drivers just worked (Ubuntu 22.04).
The only issue with the setup is me! Daily driving new hardware for work makes it difficult to adapt to an older display, keyboard and trackpad. laptop hardware really has come a long way in the past 11 years.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#27> Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring Until there is no NVidia's legacy GPU/video card inside that laptop.
I'm currently running ZorinOS on a GT610, fairly old and obsolete and can be considered legacy but it works great. The drivers came pre-installed in the distro so I had 0 problems installing and using the OS.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#28How’s the battery life though compared to MacBook Air ?
My System76 lemur pro gets 14 hours.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#29Uhm, how about suspension/hibernate? That was pretty lame even 2 years ago and I'm not seeing it improve
Dunno, in the last 10 years I've had a ThinkPad T530 and an Acer Swift 3 (AMD), suspend has worked just fine on both (Ubuntu and Fedora). My girlfriend has a Dell running Windows she always manually turns off because suspend is flakey...
At this point whether or not suspend works really depends on the laptop and there's plenty of reports of Windows users having the same issues.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#30I can't believe I'm saying this, but after a decade of claiming I didn't have driver issues, I absolutely cannot figure out how to get decent audio on newer Lenovo laptops (usually IdeaPad line). Supposedly there's numerous speakers, some of which aren't active under Linux, and/or a similair issue with woofers. I've tried everything from half a dozen pages of results from Google and I'm running 5.19... From what I ca…
Have you checked ArchWiki? For example, it provides the kernel command line for enabling all speakers on the y530: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_IdeaPad_y530