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I have yet to find a good Linux laptop. Mind you, my problem is not the hardware, it's battery life under Linux. Even out-of-the-box Windows has better battery life than my best configured Linux.

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Have you tried installing TLP? Also, you can check your settings with "powertop", but you need to do some manual config to get any changes to stick.

Oh, TLP looks interesting. To be fair, I haven't used Linux on a laptop (outside of a VM) for the last 3 years so the landscape might have changed quite a bit.

In my experience, Ubuntu 14.04 has pretty decent battery life on laptops as long as they use fairly standard chipsets and don't use fancy graphics switching between embedded and dedicated gpus. You shouldn't need to use TLP or do much hackery.

But to avoid heartache, I definitely recommend using a laptop where the vendor supports Linux drivers etc. I've had good experiences with the driver support with recent system76 laptops.

I just run Windows as a host, then start VMware in exclusive mode.

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