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It's 2008: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend

It's 2012: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend

It's 2016: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend

It's 2020: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend

It's 2024: Linux has issues with battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend

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Unless its vendor supported day 1, always buy an older gen laptop where other people have done the hard yards to get all the bits and pieces working correctly.

If that's too much hassle, just run WSL2 on Windows.

I’ve been pretty careful to buy laptops that are new, but well-supported by Linux.

They all had better battery life than windows, and more reliable suspend/resume. Audio was generally fine.

(Not all those things were true out of the box, though.)

I've just moved to WSL2 - its from Microsoft so no qualms if you want to use it on a corporate laptop, and honestly there is no GUI software I want to use on Linux that isn't available on Windows anyway.

I'd rather deal with many of the issues the op faces than deal with Microsoft Windows in its current iteration. Fortunately, I don't have to do either.

Not sure what all these windows issues are - assuming you have windows pro or above, just disable auto update installation and win11 nagging via GPO.

(On unsupported hardware; on supported hardware everything just works and has done since at least 08)

yeah. Older generation Thinkpads had better suspend than mac's did, back in like 2015 with the butterfly keyboard issues

> ... issues with ... non-working suspend

In 2020 I made it work for me with 'systemctl hybrid-sleep'. Audio worked most of the time, although sometimes I had problems with the Thinkpad plugged into an actual docking stations with additional ports.

Also Linux has issues with Bluetooth :)

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