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by BizarroLand 762 days ago
I'm not an Arch user, but I have noticed pretty poor battery life and sound volume on my Lenovo Legion laptop with every linux flavor I have tried so far.

Pop! OS, Ubuntu, Fedora, & Mint have each been tested and had similar flaws, although Fedora was the only one that automatically reconnected my bluetooth speakers on wake.

I'm going to use this post to more thoroughly examine what information I can learn about my laptop and see if I can uncover where the weaknesses are and how to resolve them.

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Yeah, there could be some useful tweaks. I started getting much better battery life on light to moderate load on my ThinkPad when I switched the AMD pstate driver to passive mode. I don't know if that has performance implications but responsivity seems fine to me.

If your Legion has a discrete GPU, that might be outside of the tweaks in the post, though.