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[–] pizzahoe@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I am running mint on my dell and the only thing i am surprised is the bad battery life on Linux. I'm getting 1 hour backup while on windows i was getting close to 3 hours. Can someone help me out here?

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Power management is quite frustrating on Linux, as this is supposed to be tuned by the OEM, but many OEM never bother to tune it on linux.

Even large OEM like dell only ensures all their hardwares "work" on linux, but don't do much further tuning. And many like hp and lenovo sometimes don't even to bother make their hardware work.

This is why buying from small manufactures with good linux support is important. They not only support both windows and linux well, many often come with additional perks like built in country with reasonable labor practice, repairability, upgradablity, no phone tree in support, and supporting Linux desktop development.

Personally, my framework AMD has great battery life on linux by default. And I am sure manufacture like system76, tuxedo, slimbook, starlab, novacustom, etc. all works well.

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[–] preludeofme@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

My only thing holding me back is my kids play Roblox and for the life of me I can't get it working since they blocked it last year. Tried all the troubleshooting, vinegar, juice box, etc nothing works

[–] ambrosiaforest@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

i play roblox through vinegar all the time and it works perfectly out of the box

[–] DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I use Grapejuice. It's a simple flatpak that I can install and it just works. You just need to go into its settings and choose between Vulkan, D3D11 or something else if the performance isn't good.

EDIT: just found out about Vinegar, I'll try it later. Apparently it's better than Grapejuice

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[–] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

I think the only devices in my house that aren't running Linux are running VXWorks or some random embedded OS. Been this way for ages.

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I've heard that steam vr does not work well on Linux. Is that still the case? Occasional vr is the only thing keeping me from nuking my windows install.

[–] freedumb@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Running Steam VR using Proton works great for me.

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