I went back to #Windows for now you guys. I just can't. Every. Single. #Linux. Distro. has some kind of hardware issue. First it was the sound not adjusting with the GNOME volume slider. Then it was packages not being available in rpm or flatpak, and I'd have to spend forever finding a tutorial to compile from source. Then it was firefox having video stutter issues. Then I switch to Mint and I can't adjust screen brightness for no reason.
Constant headaches. Windows just works.
all that and Linux SUCKS for laptop battery life. It halved my battery no matter the distro.
Yeah, overwhelming but can be cool to learn about this https://linrunner.de/tlp/settings/index.html and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tlp has some documentation, with this and some blog from a user explaining it, it should work. Also, the auto-cpufreq is pretty cool, makes your PC go slower but saves a lot of your laptop energy, or I feel like this.
I’m not sure it ‘learns’, it just gets installed with sane defaults that can help save battery life here and there, without restricting power too much it causes crashes, or other problems. You can configure it further in the config, but for new-to-linux people, often times installing is enough to see some good improvements from the defaults it uses.
I tried that TLP app, but the options were overwhelming. I had no idea how to configure it properly.
Yeah, overwhelming but can be cool to learn about this https://linrunner.de/tlp/settings/index.html and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tlp has some documentation, with this and some blog from a user explaining it, it should work. Also, the
auto-cpufreq
is pretty cool, makes your PC go slower but saves a lot of your laptop energy, or I feel like this.You don’t really need to configure TLP, just let it run in the background and it will “learn” on its own.
I’m not sure it ‘learns’, it just gets installed with sane defaults that can help save battery life here and there, without restricting power too much it causes crashes, or other problems. You can configure it further in the config, but for new-to-linux people, often times installing is enough to see some good improvements from the defaults it uses.