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I've been eying up this laptop. Could you elaborate on your experience with it on Linux? Have the patches in [2] been mainlined? If not, have they worked betwee
by robolion 4y ago
I've been eying up this laptop. Could you elaborate on your experience with it on Linux? Have the patches in [2] been mainlined? If not, have they worked between kernel releases (e.g. linux-5.x to linux-6.x)? How's the battery life? 3200x2000 @ 15.6" = 242ppi. Are you able to use integer (2x) scaling comfortably?
- virtualritz 4y agoI used Kubuntu on it before switching to pop!_OS because non-integer scaling was blurry on the Ubuntu desktop. Kubuntu was totally fine. I always use around 1.5x scaling on this res/ppi. Integer scaling works fine (and is sharp) on both desktops. There are no patches in this repo but actual driver kernel modules. I don't think any of them have been mainlined but I may be wrong. Whenever I update the kernel, I run a single script from that repo. But I don't update kernels unless there is good reason for my particular hardware. I used the 5.17 kernel series until two weeks ago and switched to 6 since then. Everything works perfectly fine. Feel free to PM me for any other questions about this machine.
- robolion 4y agoAn impressive amount of work has gone into that repo! Presumably, loading those modules taints the kernel, but that's a fair compromise for the functionality gained. Some of them e.g. 8852BE appear to be making their way into 6.1. How's the battery life across different workloads?
- virtualritz 4y agoI frankly do not know about battery life. I almost exclusively use the laptop at home when sitting in my super comfy lounge chair all day to code. The most I traveled while working (text editor, compiling Rust code from time to time) was four hours. I believe to recall half of the battery was left after that.