I mean, ok. Normally battery is much better on Linux though, or do you need a comparison to previous reviews that did it on Linux?
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I stopped reading after they mentioned the battery performance was only measured on Windows. This is ridiculous to not measure it on Linux.
The Frameworks represent the bleeding edge in my mind. The laptop I'd get if I was suddenly wealthy. This one looks cool. New RAM type sounds interesting. Anyone here had experience with it?
It's 2026, you need to win the lottery to buy a laptop.
Beat me to it. I can't wait to get one!
See if you have quick resume or a similar setting in the bios and turn it off. It keeps a bunch of things powered up in sleep mode. Helped me a lot in making sleep mode actually useful
I just tried to say with this link that s3 is dead
Would lscpu or lspci show what sleep states are available? I find these commands to be pleasant.
S3 is not supported by this amd platform. I belive it's not something you can just enable.
This has nothing to do with sleep mode or s2idle as far as I can see.
https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq give this a whirl
Is there an app for investigation, or how does one check it out? dmesg?
Another downside is that it wears SSD a little bit. Not by a lot, but it adds up a bit after a while.
I don’t know if this is outdated information or not, but I recall that windows poorly maintained sleep under one of the sleep levels on any device causing battery drain like this.
Modern Standby configurations that disable traditional S1/S2/S3 state something like that. Unfortunately, for me, it wasn’t solvable and one of the many reasons I don’t use windows anymore.
Look into hibernation/suspend-to-disk. It's not too difficult to set up, and the power drain there would be basically 0 because the computer powers off completely. The only downside is that it takes slightly longer to resume, but on modern SSDs it's honestly not that noticeable.
i've been looking for those settings, but i don't think the laptop supports anything but s2idle/modern standby.... if you know how to enable S3 sleep on this laptop id love to know.
A somewhat generic answer, since its been a while since i had to troubleshoot/check the battery usage.
Check what sleep states the Laptop is going in. Check if you can set 'deeper' sleep states like suspending the ram to the disk so RAM is no longer powered etc. BIOS settings play a role here as well.
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A chunky thinkpad-like framework
sure, but everyone will drop something once or twice. and if you're someone who wants to get 5+ years out of the laptop, and potentially have it last beyond your own use to be used second hand, something that won't break when dropped would be pretty nice. I really appreciate my T530 which I bought 2-3 years ago, when it was already a 10 year old machine. sure the thinkpads are a bit overkill, but a sturdier plastic frame would help. also, to be honest, i enjoy the aestethic
People here keep arguing with me saying that it's not ready to be recommended to the average person because "you can't change the system files or run virtual machines or do manual command line config".
I think people here have their heads way up their own asses. The average person doesn't do any of that shit. They use the web browser, maybe game, and maybe move files around.
It's actually crazy, I feel like we're just waiting for the word to get out at this point lol
Running Bazzite too and have had the same OS for 2 years now. Nothing broke. I never knew Linux could be so stable and so problem free
There are definetly docks/hubs made to work with that model.
That's exactly what I did! Framework (not pro) with an Anker dock to replace old desktop/laptop. No complaints.
Thanks I recommend Bazzite all the time to newbies since it is easy to use and basically impossible to break. I am running it right now and I love it but I have been considering trying out Aurora again.