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Re:Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux by Lio on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:52AM (#49460821)
So the hardware is capable but the Linux distros aren’t quite there yet?

Fingers crossed for them then. I love the idea of a Framework laptop but I’m only interested in Linux performance.

Re:Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux by Mashimo on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:25AM (#49461145)
> but the Linux distros aren’t quite there yet?

I just went by what Framework said on release a few weeks or month back. Maybe you can find a more up to date Linux test somewhere.

And I bet you can soon get a ThinkPad with the same intel chip, that should have similar battery life.

Re:Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux by mike97 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:38AM (#49461683)
> And I bet you can soon get a ThinkPad with the same intel chip, that should have similar battery life.

Yes you can, speaking from experience. I have the T14 gen 7 with the 75 wh battery, and the 356H CPU, it only uses 4-6w/hour when coding with a lot of browser tabs open, a headless VM running, docker containers and so on, online meetings is about 6-8w/hour, this is under Linux, with default power setting from Opensuse.

It can easily last more than 10 working hours, I limit mine to 80% charge as it's more than enough for when I'm on the go.

Re:Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux by Mashimo on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:58AM (#49461806)
Nice. I still rock the Gen 1 or 2 T14.

Works for me, just wish I had a better display. It's possible to upgrade it, just so much conflicting information out there.

Re:Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux by enragedcacti on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:00PM (#49466978)
Anecdotal, but a CachyOS dev seems quite happy about the 13 Pro battery life in Linux.

> Its two working days. Around 15-18 hrs i get out, depending on usage and power profile. If you do heavy compilation or so its much shorter :D

> Generally used balanced profile most time with intel lpmd (lpe core task util till threshold).

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