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by terrortrain 1685 days ago
Linux for laptop just isn't great in my experience. My desktop is Linux, and all is well.

But on all my laptops, I find things to just be to much of a PITA. Eg: hibernate, is way too buggy to depend on. Half the time something prevents hibernate, and my laptop is dead and/or over heated when I pull it out of my bag. The other half the time everything is bugged out when it comes out of hibernate.

I found that when I'm traveling, I'm happier with a very underpowered laptop, which has great battery life. I don't even use wsl. GitHub codespaces has been working well enough.

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I have two laptops. MacBook Air 2013 and a thinkpad (I think w540?) and both run Linux perfectly. Way better than either macOS or Windows 10.
All these reports would be useful with the maker and model of the affected laptop. I tend to pick the boring models and they mostly work, but knowing which ones work so badly (like the XPS 13 people mention) would be extremely helpful.