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1. pharma+Pc[view] [source] 2022-09-24 18:23:40
>>tonyst+(OP)
How nice for OP.

Just a handful of my issues:

- only one speaker works so volume is low

- finger print scanner doesn’t work

- battery life is poor compared to Windows on same machine

- suspend and hibernate doesn’t work

- random freezes

- charging indicator unreliable

- trackpad wrist filtering is very poor

- boot failures after OS updates

I have now switched to a Mac with Apple Silicon.

I really tried with Linux for philosophical reasons, but honestly what professional developer has time for all this?

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2. wazoox+dA[view] [source] 2022-09-24 21:40:32
>>pharma+Pc
> - only one speaker works so volume is low

I had this problem too on my old XPS, it's hardware, not software. Linux cannot magically fix broken cables.

> - finger print scanner doesn’t work

There is no driver for the common Chinese fingerprint readers. That's hardly Linux fault.

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3. pharma+V57[view] [source] 2022-09-27 05:26:04
>>wazoox+dA
Volume works on Windows so this is some kind of software issue.

Fingerprint scanner might not be Linux’s “fault” (whatever that means) but fact is I can’t use it on Linux.

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