strawberry_pimp
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Currently daily driving Windows 10 on my Acer Swift 3 SF314-511 Intel EVO Laptop with i5-1135G7, 8GB RAM, Iris Xe Graphics. Most of my use case is streaming video (My classes, YouTube, Twitch), and battery life is my top priority, since I live in an area with frequent power outage. So I used Windows 10 Debloater by Sycnex and WinAero Tweaker to debloat windows as much as possible and am currently at about 9-10 hrs video streaming battery life. But windows updates tend to bring more bloat and switch on telemetry and Edge preload, etc. so for long term, I wanted to switch to linux.
I have long been a fan of linux, since my previous laptop used to run much better with linux and even games over proton ran better than windows. As for my expertise with it, I am able to google search for problems and follow instructions fairly easily, if I am able to identify the problem properly.
I like distributions with minimal preinstalled apps and prefer a modern DE (GNOME and KDE are my favorites), as I mostly prefer to use my trackpad and gesture based navigation.
I tried some Ubuntu LTS based distros, but one or more of Trackpad, Speaker and SSD went unrecognized. I did not have any idea of finding and installing drivers manually (windows used to search it automatically) so I found it easier to switch to running release distros, like Fedora, Manjaro, etc and they seem to work fine. But in all cases, the battery life was horrible (around 4-6 hrs), even in distros and DEs I found in articles to be battery friendly.
I tried tools like Powertop, TLP and Power Profiles Daemon, but none took me more than 7 hrs. I also faced heating issues, and fan ramping up. In the same use cases, Windows 10 was working cool and totally silent.
I followed some articles, did some troubleshooting related to hardware acceleration in Firefox/Chromium (My classes only work on these browsers). Nothing seemed to work. Typically CPU usage was like: Windows (Idle: 0-1%, Video: ~5%), Manjaro KDE (Idle: 0-1%, Video: 15-20%)(best of all linux).
I eventually come back to Windows 10 everytime.
So my question is, should I stick to windows as per my requirements and familiarity with linux (I cannot give too much time learning more linux, as of now)?
I have long been a fan of linux, since my previous laptop used to run much better with linux and even games over proton ran better than windows. As for my expertise with it, I am able to google search for problems and follow instructions fairly easily, if I am able to identify the problem properly.
I like distributions with minimal preinstalled apps and prefer a modern DE (GNOME and KDE are my favorites), as I mostly prefer to use my trackpad and gesture based navigation.
I tried some Ubuntu LTS based distros, but one or more of Trackpad, Speaker and SSD went unrecognized. I did not have any idea of finding and installing drivers manually (windows used to search it automatically) so I found it easier to switch to running release distros, like Fedora, Manjaro, etc and they seem to work fine. But in all cases, the battery life was horrible (around 4-6 hrs), even in distros and DEs I found in articles to be battery friendly.
I tried tools like Powertop, TLP and Power Profiles Daemon, but none took me more than 7 hrs. I also faced heating issues, and fan ramping up. In the same use cases, Windows 10 was working cool and totally silent.
I followed some articles, did some troubleshooting related to hardware acceleration in Firefox/Chromium (My classes only work on these browsers). Nothing seemed to work. Typically CPU usage was like: Windows (Idle: 0-1%, Video: ~5%), Manjaro KDE (Idle: 0-1%, Video: 15-20%)(best of all linux).
I eventually come back to Windows 10 everytime.
So my question is, should I stick to windows as per my requirements and familiarity with linux (I cannot give too much time learning more linux, as of now)?
