I am rocking an Xiaomi Gaming Laptop (i7 9th, GeForce 2060, 32Gb Ram) with PopOS installed since day one. It is working fine (a bit annoyed because there is no way of finding a new battery for replacement), but I was thinking of switching to something more open source and with Linux officially supported.

Anyone here with an Adder WS (or any other System76 laptop)? How do you find yourself with it? Mainly curious about the battery life.

Thank you for reading.

  • SpookyOperative@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    I use a Lemur Pro, and I’d recommend it for just about anyone who doesn’t want to game haha. It just has Intel integrated graphics, and while it runs Minecraft perfectly well, that’s about as much as you can push it.

    The battery life on there is easily upwards of 10-12 hours being used lightly for some web browsing, word processing, etc. etc… That’s with Pop!_OS at least, which seems to be pretty power efficient.

    I put QubesOS on there too and it only gets 4-5 max, but that’s definitely just a Qubes thing and not the hardware’s fault.

    • SterbenDeathGun@lemmy.mlOP
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      10 months ago

      Thanks for sharing.

      For a non-gaming choice I would go for the Pangolin. It has better graphics and AMD is better for Linux (?). Even though, it has 10h of battery life against the advertised 14h of the Lemur Pro.

      It is so hard to pick, because I’m not even sure if I want to go for an ultra powerful or an ultraportable laptop.