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1. justin+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-09-24 17:26:18
Except it eats battery. I would not recommend Linux on a laptop under any circumstances.
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2. t-3+g2[view] [source] 2022-09-24 17:39:12
>>justin+(OP)
I was getting 12 hour battery life on a Macbook Air running Gentoo a decade ago... things have only gotten better. You're way off base here.
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3. raisin+l3[view] [source] 2022-09-24 17:44:50
>>justin+(OP)
I get 15-20 hours of battery on my laptop running Debian, at say 30% brightness, with an open ssh connection or two over wifi. So, there are clearly circumstances where it is fine, though I'm quite sure there are cases where it isn't, too. Use the tools that work for you when they work for you.
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4. justin+GE[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-09-24 22:47:59
>>t-3+g2
I had a System76, and the thing ate battery. Had to sell it and go back to a mac because it wasn't usable.
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5. t-3+MVb[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-09-28 17:24:56
>>justin+GE
I'm not surprised, I've never used a system76 laptop, but they always looked like chunky "portable workstations" rather than mobile computing devices. After dealing with the horrible battery life, weight, and fan noise of a Thinkpad with a discrete GPU and fast CPU, I decided that I would ignore that segment of the market in favor of the small and light category.
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