I’m contemplating to replace 1-2 aging desktops in our home by “gaming” laptops.
What really bugs me with the Linux laptops I currently have is that sleep is unstable or inefficient. On one device it sometimes just won’t wake up. On both the battery is drained fully within few days. I have a MacBook at work and know I’ll probably not hit the same level of stability and efficiency in sleep, but I’m wondering whether hardware choice can play a role in improving the experience, especially seeing how I might make this my primary device moving forward.
I often grab the Linux laptop and end up going for the work MacBook or my ipad because the battery is dead and I only wanted to check something real quick - it’s okay with an old leftover device but it sort of irritates me.
Update: I also experience battery drain when shut down and would love to reduce that. A laptop is a device I keep ready but not necessarily plugged in. As a parent I might not use it for a few days here or there.
Lenovo makes some decent laptops. Asus. MSI. There are quite a few. Dells are decent. I think it’s less hardware dependant and more software if you’re PC or laptops are having suspend issues. Mint works good for instance but lately NIX has been having suspend issues for me.
It’s also a matter of the drain I experience. Even when shutting down my Carbon X1 Gen 7 it loses all battery within a week. It’s simply a terrible device to have lying around. The battery is empty when I pick it up more often than not. Either sleep drained it within a day or I shut it down a week ago and the battery is flat either way 😢
Can attest to the X1C7 drain when shut down, although to a lesser degree. I have it as a secondary machine for Windows, so I’ll sometimes leave it alone for a couple weeks. It’s completely dead by the end of the month unless I go into the BIOS and disable the battery until the next charger connect. You wouldn’t ever know from normal use, it still lasts around 6 to 6.5 hours on a full charge.
Sounds like a bad battery or something is phantom draining it. That’s unusual unless there is a software issue. I’d run full system logs to check what the load on the battery is before it dies while at rest, you can also try power-top, and TLP.
I am using TLP and powertop. On two devices actually. And both of them are simply much worse than the MacBook I have at work. Thus my question to start this thread. There must be controllers, main boards or something that are better or worse at drain during sleep or being turned off
Have you tried cloning and ssd or swapping it into another device to see if the same effect happens? That could tell you if it’s a software or hardware issue. If you have researched and used those fairly extensive battery programs then I’m guessing there’s some sort of hardware issue. I’d swap or clone the ssd. And check on another laptop.
I don’t have the time for this that I used to and Bazzite has otherwise been running fine. Both of them had other distros on that had the same issues and Bazzite might become my daily driver for the future main machine and otherwise worked flawlessly.
Lenovo makes some decent laptops. Asus. MSI. There are quite a few. Dells are decent. I think it’s less hardware dependant and more software if you’re PC or laptops are having suspend issues. Mint works good for instance but lately NIX has been having suspend issues for me.
It’s also a matter of the drain I experience. Even when shutting down my Carbon X1 Gen 7 it loses all battery within a week. It’s simply a terrible device to have lying around. The battery is empty when I pick it up more often than not. Either sleep drained it within a day or I shut it down a week ago and the battery is flat either way 😢
Can attest to the X1C7 drain when shut down, although to a lesser degree. I have it as a secondary machine for Windows, so I’ll sometimes leave it alone for a couple weeks. It’s completely dead by the end of the month unless I go into the BIOS and disable the battery until the next charger connect. You wouldn’t ever know from normal use, it still lasts around 6 to 6.5 hours on a full charge.
Sounds like a bad battery or something is phantom draining it. That’s unusual unless there is a software issue. I’d run full system logs to check what the load on the battery is before it dies while at rest, you can also try power-top, and TLP.
I am using TLP and powertop. On two devices actually. And both of them are simply much worse than the MacBook I have at work. Thus my question to start this thread. There must be controllers, main boards or something that are better or worse at drain during sleep or being turned off
Have you tried cloning and ssd or swapping it into another device to see if the same effect happens? That could tell you if it’s a software or hardware issue. If you have researched and used those fairly extensive battery programs then I’m guessing there’s some sort of hardware issue. I’d swap or clone the ssd. And check on another laptop.
I don’t have the time for this that I used to and Bazzite has otherwise been running fine. Both of them had other distros on that had the same issues and Bazzite might become my daily driver for the future main machine and otherwise worked flawlessly.