![]() ![]() The keyboard backllight is MOBO driven on this laptop, but getting the brightness sofkeys to work required adding "pcie_aspm=force acpi_osi=" to the GRUB kernel parameters. Little things too, such as changing the touchpad scroll sensitivity or disabling it while typing - while I'm sure these options are available in Win 11, they were so much easier to find and adjust here on Linux (at least for me).Įverything works! Pipewire/Pulse handles the audio, bluez the bluetooth and networkmanager handles wifi. I miss absolutely nothing from Windows 11, and there's plenty I'm very happy to get rid of such as the ridiculous right-click and taskbar changes. There are no frills at all - it looks good, is completely customisable and super responsive. I've gone DE/DM free this time, logging in via tty and using i3wm, and I'm probably not going to go back to a pure GUI now I've seen such riches. Now I don't have to worry about keeping the charger handy constantly.Ī bit trickier to say as there are so many choices for Arch. This has easily DOUBLED the battery life, maybe more. Now it idles at 0-1% CPU and <1Gb ram, as it should. Not a problem really, but I just find that sort of thing upsetting! ![]() Win 11 also sat between 3-5Gb ram at idle. Ask it to do something (like stream youtube) and suddenly you're up in the 50-60% range, it's getting warm and it's spinning its fans. Turning the laptop on and leaving it idle, it'd sit there between 10-15% CPU usage chugging away doing nothing (besides collecting personal data I suppose). This was my main motivation for switching OS after seeing that Chromebook spring back to life. This is an NVME machine and Win11 was certainly no slouch, but now it's so very quick it almost makes me laugh. The GRUB timeout is the longest stage - with it disabled I can get to the TTY in <10 seconds from powering on. I'm running linux-zen and GRUB, with EFI, 2Gb SWAP and btrfs on the main partition.Įxtremely fast, almost comically so. *** edited to swap GDM for MDM - i didnt realise Mint have forked it.Ĭode: Select all if (GLib.I recently popped Arch onto my crappy little chromebook, and was so impressed I've thrown it onto my daily laptop as well. Is there a way to run MDM as my screensaver, for example? I am happy to put xscreensaver back if that helps, but I want it to always kick me back to MDM login (on system wake from suspend and logout/switch user) This is not ideal, basically I have to make sure my admin account is never left running. no double-entry of passwords when logging into an already-active user (once with MDM then with xscreensaver)īUT, now when a logout happens, you are dumped into another users' active session without password prompt. no password prompt for my kids when the laptop wakes from suspend My workaround has been to apt-get remove xscreensaver. My kids are one of these users and its set to log them in without a password prompt, which works great from the login manager, but xscreensaver doesnt let them do that, so they get stuck. When user 2 logs out, they are dumped into user 1's session and xscreensaver is asking them for user 1's password and there isnt the option to get to the GDM login manager. What I expect to happen is to go back to the GDM login manager screen, but what actually happens is I get logged into user 1's session. Switch user (takes me to the GDM login manager screen, great) I have a laptop running LM17.1 XFCE with 3 user accounts set up (all using Xfce as DM). I'd really appreciate suggestions on this issue. ![]()
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