For a lot of geeks, solving problems instead of using it is where the fun is, in the same way someone would constant be in the garage with a vintage car they only take out on special occasions. Linux is written by geeks for geeks, and geeks have different aesthetics and control issues than normal people. I don’t think it’ll ever get there as Linux. macOS still doesn’t support forwarding USB devices to docker containers, go figure. I think I’ve had more trouble with macOS the past two years or so than Linux. Overall my Linux experience is fantastic. I have a PC sitting under the desk for that dual booting into Win 10 for games. I don’t play games when mobile and when I’m at home, usually not on a laptop. It is by far my favorite laptop right now. I think I only felt similar excitement for a laptop with my 12” PowerBook G4 and the 2016 MBP13. I went all in on this one, btrfs file system with luks (full encryption for two sub volumes and snapshot capability). Just works out of the box except finger print reader, which needs additional drivers installed. Running dual boot Win11 (don’t really use it) and Pop 21 on it (using ROS in docker here). It doesn’t have a dGPU, which is ok for me when mobile. I got a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen9 in addition for being mobile (super lightweight). I think the best fit for it is traveling to conferences and working in hotel rooms. It feels more chunky than my Intel MBP16, but less than the M1 MBP16. My biggest problem with it is size and weight. When I need GPU (CUDA and UE4) I’m usually at my desk and hook it up, so it’s not an issue. No problem with battery life at all, but I usually don’t need GPU when I’m mobile. I’m not switching GPU, I’m using hybrid mode. Had to fiddle a little to get Razer tools installed, which allowed me to configure it and fix the issue. Passing a parameter during boot fixed it. after a quick Google search, turns out Razer implemented the sensors differently than most other manufacturers. It also rebooted every now and when waking it. I had two problems with it.Īfter closing the lid and putting it to sleep, it would randomly kick me out of my session when waking up. As I need ROS Noetic native, I picked 20 over 21. I have a Razer Blade Studio with RTX5000 running dual boot Win10/Pop OS 20. Imo, Linux won’t be taken seriously by the public until it can get to the point where an average computer user is able to install the OS and run his/her apps without spending hours in the terminal - pure and simple Do I spend more time problem solving instead of using it? Yes and that’s a problem. My personal VPN worked well, 1Password surprised me at working and I was able to do non-work stuff without batting an eyelash. Personal productivity, other then not having a OneDrive client, this worked well enough. For some reason I could not remote into the servers and I was unable to get Citrix Workspace running. Work stuff – This started out positively as I was able to install Cisco’s anyconnect VPN but, that's where the progress stopped. It was significantly inferior to windows. I tried other games with varying levels of success though the sound was consistently inconsistent. Now that i can play games, playing Fallout 76 – was a disappointment, my laptop is fairly powerful but playing it in Linux was not pleasant, stuttering, poor performance, and inconsistent sound - It was playable but not enjoyable. In the end, I think it was a combination of things, including the fact I needed to set the discreet GPU in the bios. I was able to get the game going but only after spending an entire day working on this and spending way too much time in the terminal. Protondb reported that fallout 76 was rated gold and was fairly fast, and stable but that was my experience. Game playing - I went to install steam/proton and that was definitely a pain point. Overall running Linux on my laptop is not ideal. Fan noise, the fan curves and/or power settings are such in Linux that the fans are much more noticeable and distracting. I saw it drop about 10 percent every 10 minutes. Battery life is horrid, if I get 2 hours out of the laptop, I’d be lucky. For reasons described in the game playing paragraph, I needed to be on the discreet GPU and that had a major impact on my battery. Laptop hardware – one of the major stumbling blocks I ran into is the fact that my Razer uses Nividia Optimus to switch GPUS. Not everything was unicorns and rainbows however: Installing Pop_OS on the Razer was amazingly fast and easy. The plan is to install linux on my Razer, and seeing whether Linux can be used as a daily driver? Like Linus, my goals are simple, playing games, using my productivity apps and doing work stuffĬhoosing a distro – I’ve used a number of different distros in the past but I’m more familiar with Ubuntu and I think what Pop_OS brings to the table adds a lot. Inspired by LTT, I’m undertaking a similar move.
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