After spending a few months on the FW16, going back to a 16:9 laptop feels... wrong. Like there's a ton of vertical space missing. Everything except watching movies benefits from a little bit more vertical space.
I've never heard of Linux destroying a Windows partition unless there's a blatant user error.
First keeb soldered, second keeb soldered too, third keeb designed, 3D printed and handwired 😅
"Cloud Native" means uBlue's OS images are basically Docker images, but meant tu run on bare metal instead of inside virtualization, that are built automatically with GitHub actions.
The project itself is super interesting. It's not a distro, it's an alternative automated build pipeline toolkit for Silverblue/CoreOS that lets anyone build their perfect atomic image. It's still 100% Fedora+rpmfusion under the hood.
UBlue's official images have massive quality of life improvements over Silverblue.
Very good choice going with Debian. It is simple, clean, can be as minimal or as "bloated" as you wish, and once you've worked out the kinks it will happily run for years without maintenance (except updates of course).
There's a steep learning curve because as a user you're expected to configure stuff yourself (although defaults are most of the time very sensible), but if you're willing and able to truly learn Linux and the terminal and you're familiar with your hardware, it's one of the best platforms out there.
pacman -Snstall -yefresh -yefresh -unly-upgrades
SPOILERS: Drive to Survive lead actor Guenther Steiner fired at the end of season 6
X is not going to die, X is already dead.
(great write-up btw ;) )
There are daily threads started by new users who say stuff like "I read that systemd is bad, should I switch to [insert systemd-less distro here]" or "My RTX 4080 runs Sim City 2000 at 12 FPS, is Linux trash?", so there seems to be a need to at least help alleviate the fears of people who read conflicting stuff (or downright flamewars) on the internet and might be overwhelmed by those conflicts.
I have almost the same laptop (PS63 8M, without any nVidia dGPU).
One of the issues I had to solve was the touchpad spamming interrupts after waking up from sleep. It would keep one core at 100% indefinitely, keeping CPU frequency (and temps) quite high and burning through the battery.
Here's the fix: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1865745#p1865745
This behavior seems fixed on modern kernels since I've installed Fedora recently and didn't have to do this workaround, but you can still check if this still applies to you.
You might also check if you can disable the dGPU in the BIOS (can't check since I don't have one), and/or play with power profiles either through Gnome or tlp (lower power profiles will make your laptop very sluggish though).
Maybe check if both your fans are running. I had to replace one of mine that was starting to fail a year ago.
Other than that, I've never had any overheating issues with this laptop.
wfh
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Just tried 100% + large text on Gnome, it feels much better than 125% scaling, thanks for letting us know it's a possibility!