Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2
by csdvrx on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:13PM
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> Choosing a Microsoft laptop to use Linux is asking for trouble :)
Not true anymore.
> I had two of them, and Microsoft had this awful idea of the connected standby, which caused standby/suspend problems (power-hungry standby, which is a very serious problem on a laptop).
When? Which models?
ACPI S01x when well done works better than ACPI S3, and Linux support for S01x is now getting quite good.
On a X1 nano, I've got less than 0.2%/h of power draw: so 10h of sleep consumes about 2% battery
It's still a work in progress, but I can't remember ACPI S3 consuming less that 5% overnight and resuming instantly.
> I don't remember having to do any tweak on desktop machine, except the time where I had a very modern Ryzen that was supported by very recent kernels only.
Not true anymore.
> I had two of them, and Microsoft had this awful idea of the connected standby, which caused standby/suspend problems (power-hungry standby, which is a very serious problem on a laptop).
When? Which models?
ACPI S01x when well done works better than ACPI S3, and Linux support for S01x is now getting quite good.
On a X1 nano, I've got less than 0.2%/h of power draw: so 10h of sleep consumes about 2% battery
On the X1 Fold, I was able to reduce that to about 0.5%/h after some workaround for Intel drivers bugs: cf https://csdvrx.github.io/ or just the graph https://csdvrx.github.io/X1_Fold_(20RL_20RK)_Optimization/pa...
It's still a work in progress, but I can't remember ACPI S3 consuming less that 5% overnight and resuming instantly.
> I don't remember having to do any tweak on desktop machine, except the time where I had a very modern Ryzen that was supported by very recent kernels only.
Laptops often need more tweaks than desktops.