[2muchcoffeeman]

Try Pop OS.

[trelane]

On System76...

[2muchcoffeeman]

Pop OS on a Dell XPS is giving me good battery life. If you already have your machine and files are backed up, worth a shot.

[lukeschlather]

"Good battery life" is not my measure of good power management. I can leave my windows laptop sitting out, it will sensibly turn off the screen and eventually hibernate, I don't need to worry about it. A Linux laptop will need babying when it's not plugged in.

[2muchcoffeeman]

Yes it’s horrible when I’m not plugged in and you have to shutdown before closing the lid for transportation.

But if you want off windows and aren’t willing to go Mac, you take what you can get.

[trelane]

> Yes it’s horrible when I’m not plugged in and you have to shutdown before closing the lid for transportation.

Why? Does it not hibernate?

[2muchcoffeeman]

No it does not. If you’re not careful you’ll open your laptop bag to a hot and barely touchable laptop.

[likeclockwork]

They usually suspend when the lid is closed by default rather than hibernating.

[trelane]

Not necessarily

[str34m]

Gnome has power management features like that, didn't even enable them. It's the most installed DE I think, so your characterization of Linux is pretty off.

I like Gnome and its newest incarnation Gnome 40, but at least on Nixos it has some issues so I often rebuild to an i3-based environment instead.

[420official]

I didn't have the same experience with pop on a newer XPS. I wasn't able to get more than 4 hours on a full charge.

[2muchcoffeeman]

I’m on a 2020 XPS17. At the time I was having a hell of a time and it took almost a year for everything to be supported out of the box.

[trelane]

Why do people keep doing this to themselves?! I really don't get it. Just buy a laptop from a vendor that actually supports linux, like System76.

[2muchcoffeeman]

Because there are countries out side of America. You may have heard of them.