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Any quirks to be aware of with Linux on the AMD Framework 13? (lemdro.id)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My laptop is arriving on Monday and I haven't picked a distro yet. I currently use Debian but that is on older hardware. I'm experienced with a lot of distros so I'm a bit flexible here. I was thinking openSUSE for the sake of the latest and greatest AMD drivers, but I do see that Fedora is officially supported while openSUSE is not. Are there any hardware compatibility issues I could expect?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hmmm, most reviews/forum posts I've read have said more like 6 hour battery life even with zoom calls so surprised to see your results. I guess we'll see. Likely some driver issues with the current platform.

That said, I almost always have a charger around and never spend more than an hour or two at a time so it's not a deal breaker regardless.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I did a lot of profiling, turns out vscode and ltex are very resource intensive. I changed ltex to a basic spell checker, the battery consumption dropped from 20w to 13w, which not great, but a huge imporvement.

I am thinking about replacing vscode with vim or emacs for more bettery life, but I am not ready to make the jump yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I just got a new ram stick so that the laptop can avoid using swap, see if that fixes anything.

BTW, I got the ryzen 5 edition, which comes with a smaller battery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I bought 32GB so I might be mounting something as tmpfs rather than using swap :)

That said it shouldn't really impact battery life