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I had a Thinkpad with Ubuntu and still had many of the problems you mention and more:

- Barely ever waking from sleep, especially with external monitor connected

- Screen brightness keyboard controls didn't work (needed to use a CLI tool to control gamma as a hacky workaround)

- Had to power cycle repeatedly to get to a desktop when booting

- Not working reliably in clamshell mode

- Randomly forgetting external monitor scaling

- Accessibility features like screen zooming are very poorly done compared to Mac's Ctrl-MouseWheel (which zooms entire screen without crashing)

Things actually got worse as I upgraded to newer kernels. The wake from sleep problem is the #1 productivity killer I had. I had to leave the machine running all the time just to do my job.

A good post on why Linux has so much trouble waking is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386605

>>odysse+(OP)
Sleep has become less of an issue recently, at least in my experience. Modern laptop CPUs idle in such a low power state. I just set up my built-in display to disable when the lid is closed. Seems sufficient.

>>odysse+(OP)
I've also had a recent Thinkpad X1 with Ubuntu and had several major issues, for example no working microphone for the first 6 months.

>>bee_ri+Ba
If you leave it anywhere in a bag not plugged in, then you have to be constantly thinking 'I only have 30 hours left till the battery dies and I lose everything I had open'.

Not a great feeling.

>>london+ma1
I'm not 30 hours away from electricity very often, to the point where it wouldn't be a big deal to just save and shutdown, since it is a rare occasion. But I live a very predictable lifestyle, I guess if you are exploring London you probably end up in unexpected situations often.