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what are problems with linux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Depends on the hardware.

I have a gaming laptop that I use for Teams for work. I put linux on it so it would shut up and be silent. On windows, even on silent settings, it is always wasting resources and causing the fans to come on loudly.

With linux it is silent. On top of that, battery life is much better because windows is not doing all that crap it does in the background. Still not great, its a gaming laptop after all, but better.

Also, does mint come with good power management tools? I opted for Cachyos due to the gaming (nvidia) driver support. My other laptop is Fedora, and it too does really well with battery life. Both are more up to date than Mint, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I think the main issue was that Mint doesn't have good power management tools (so I used a third-party utility). Not a 'gaming' laptop but it does have a dedicated Nvidia GPU and I got the drivers working fine, and most games ran better than than they did on windows. I'll check out CachyOs! Thank you for the suggestion. I haven't tried Fedora in a decade (and not on this PC, obviously), so I'll take a look at that, too.

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