Which is why we all are using Linux now.
Fuck anything Microsoft
“Microsoft is a corporation that turns…”
Finally, I can use my surface pro 7 again
third party drivers
Oh I guess it runs like ass because it’s just a bad OS
I switched to Fedora KDE on my surface pro and it has been a delight. So much more responsive and better battery life. Can recommend it!
I’ve got fedora on there right now, but even with the surface-linux kernel the digitizer doesn’t quite work and it’d be nice to have cameras. I originally bought the damn thing to take notes and read PDFs. In hindsight I should have just bought a damn iPad.
Stop the service: sudo systemctl stop iptsd
Run the calibration tool: sudo iptsd-calibrate $(iptsd-find-hidraw)
The Test: Touch the screen with your fingers normally, then “draw” with your palm or the side of your hand. Watch the terminal output. It will show you the Size and Aspect Ratio it’s detecting. If your palm touches are showing up as “Contact,” note those numbers and adjust the SizeMax and AspectMax in /etc/iptsd.conf to be lower than your palm’s readings.
This improved my pen experience a lot. I’d go with a touchscreen xps or something similar next time, pens on the go are just very nice to have. And i love typing on it. But the surface did not live up to the expectation :) for me either. But, it is what I have now, so, trying to make the best out of it. I used Rnote for note taking during my last meeting and it was: ok
Why pay Microsoft for this when my Linux laptop already does this for free
My Linux laptop has a battery life of ~17 hours … on a shitty little laptop from 2016 on the original battery.
You might want to look into what exactly is using all that power and fixing the issue.
My linux laptop is a workstation (TP W530) that manages about 8 hours on a custom battery with twice the original capacity
Lol
Yes I think I’ve had pretty bad luck on that front both my current laptop (framework 13) and old laptop (XPS 13) have had sleep issues.
My laptop’s battery isn’t great, but my real problem is with sleep. the battery for me can drop 20% - 30% overnight and sometimes it just doesn’t go to sleep and the laptop is totally dead in the morning.
I’ve tried some of the optimization on the arch wiki for my laptop but no luck 😕
If you have an SSD consider hibernation. It’s not that fast but usually much more stable and actually shuts down properly.
Oh this is about laptops not being able to enter hibernation and thus draining the battery during standby.
At my job for whatever reason our laptops refuse to sleep or hibernate, I always assumed it was a braindead choice by IT but maybe it’s a driver issue.
Gotta love it when you get out your laptop for a meeting and the bag is hot on the inside…
I always assumed it was a braindead choice by IT but maybe it’s a driver issue.
It’s likely both. Part of the problem is Windows’ “fast boot” setting. When enabled, the “shut down” button actually puts the computer into hibernate mode. Only restarting properly power cycles the system. In many companies, the option is enabled by default and IT departments lock employees out of changing it.
Another part of the problem is that the option is needed at all. If the OS wasn’t completely bloated it would boot up quickly anyways
A bog standard windows 11 gets you from cold boot into user land pretty quick. The problem comes when you’ve got thirty or more badly optimized applications running at startup.
The fuck it does. Maybe compared to my old Windows 7 install on a spinning rust platter, but Windows 11 is a slog compared to Mint in my experience. I can reboot my desktop and reload my apps so fast on Linux that Discord won’t notice that my connection dropped.
The problem comes when you’ve got thirty or more badly optimized applications running at startup.
I only have Outlook and Teams starting up automatically on my work computer, and it still takes 10-15 minutes to get fully up and running from fast boot’s “shut down”. This is on an engineering workstation.
Windows 11 (and Microslop programs in general) are just unoptimized pieces of crap
No one should be pressing the power button and thinking it is shutting down the computer. That’s user error.
“You’re holding it wrong”
Cant believe those idiots thought the power button would control power to the device. What idiots.
It does, but it doesn’t shut down by default and hasn’t for a loooooong time. Ever, probably. Even my old 186 you had to hold it down to shut it down.
It was more likely by Security than IT. Had the same issue at my last job. It was so their corpo data harvesting could be running 24/7. It could be this bug, but also could very well be intentional to keep telemetry flowing. It’s disgusting, but it is fairly common these days.
Sometimes I notice my work laptop’s fan going when it is supposedly sleeping. So I’ve started unplugging its power to make it choose between keeping battery or doing whatever bullshit it is up to. Also helps with the coil whine it sometimes has from charging.
Maybe it went unnoticed because they thought it was just caused by telemetry.
They explain this - it went “unnoticed” because their sole focus was crashes.
I’m SURE there’s no way they’ll fuck this idea up.
Laughs in MacBook Air M4.
Chuckles on any hardware on Linux.
While I’m totally with you, I use Linux on all my machines and it works great even on a netbook from the netbook era … I cannot beat a battery life of a M-powered MacBook. I literally have MacBook Air 15 with M4 and 4 hours of work in After Effects and full render preview of 1080P video, took 65% of battery. Overnight the laptop lost 0% of battery. My Intel era MacBook Pro (with Arch Linux installed) takes 0% of battery too, but I power it off. This beast took 0% battery for just closing the lid. It wakes up momentarily. It’s just a different league. Even my desktops are unreliable with sleep, I have no idea why. No hardware so far was reliable enough for me casually use sleep. Most times it works, but when it isn’t, it’s very disappointing.
MacBooks … since Intel era, I’ve been using them with uptime of a year (we used to have updates less often circa fifteen years ago). I powered it off twice: when I went for a vacation, not taking it with me. And when I bought a newer MacBook.
Now, with new MacBooks, the only reason to reboot is to install updates. There’s no reason to power it off. Even if you use it every other day, it won’t discharge. It’s like an iPad now.
Yeah, I bet. It is surely is hard to beat a system where they have full control of both the hardware and the software to be fully optimized for each other. Hard to compete with that. Too bad I dislike pretty much everything about Macs other than the battery life. 🫤️
Well, I bet it’s everyone who used them not long enough to understand their different logic. They do have stupid interface decisions indeed. But overall it’s just many times better than Windows in every single department.
I mean hibernate is a broken mess on Linux, part of the reason Linux as a main driver never quite worked for me.
In what sense is it a broken mess? It’s working for me on both my desktop PC and my work laptop. I’m on Linux 7.x (Arch, so always latest release pretty much.) Maybe it isn’t working well with older kernels? Or what can be the culprit here?
Maybe it’s just Debian based systems, but last I tried (about a year ago), hibernate wasn’t provided out of the box and requires some serious work to setup. And that has been an issue for years.
Looking online it seems like secure boot is/was the issue - articles from 2025 seems to imply it may work now, but may require some additional steps to make work.
Guffaws authoritavely in custom silicone that I created running on my own fork of TempleOS
Chortles in peasantry.
Can’t have a shitty battery if you cant afford a device.
I’m impressed by your ability to post on Lemmy without using any device.
How do you do it? Do you send your posts in by mail?
RFC 1149, IP Over Avian Character.
or public libraries but that’s not as funny
Ain’t no x86 hardware coming close to ARM regardless of the OS installed.
Tell me more about this ARM’s (master) race.
My desktop running CachyOS absolutely refuses to wake from sleep. It’s literally the only problem I’ve experienced over the past ~6 months or so of using Linux - I just haven’t had the time to diagnose and fix.
Still better than my work-issued Windows 11 laptop though!
Strange. What can even cause that? My very new desktop PC and very old work laptop both running Arch wake from suspend just fine. 🤔
To be fair, when I was running Win10 on that same machine, it developed a bug where the sound would garble and the clock would start falling behind when waking from sleep.
I couldn’t find a fix online then, but the closest suggestion was possibly a dead CMOS battery which I replaced at the same time I installed a new NVME SSD for my Linux install.
My set-up (at least in terms of USB devices) is quite complex (3-port USB switcher, 4K webcam, DAC, and an 7-port USB hub for keyboard, mouse, numpad, stream deck, pedals and microphone inputs) - as I use it for both my home desktop and for my docked work laptop, basically as a cheaper KVM with a HEAP of high-speed USB inputs.
So it could honestly be any number of hardware-related issues causing it to fail from waking up.
Now I either leave the PC on for extended periods as needed (Linux is pretty famous for stability!), or just shut it down if not.
Cackles with reality.
Computers aren’t real.
