I usually use gamescope for that purpose but it’s still a bit of a pain and takes me out of the tmux/helix loop

Ooh battery upgrades are a good sign, what kinda battery life do you get now with an unupgraded one?

Hmmm 3 hours battery is definitely a major downside, given it charges off usb c less of an issue but still

Was actually considering getting one of those copilot pcs once the Linux support catches up, supposedly people are charging those things once a week or so

Ouch if nixos doesn’t work well that’s a deal-breaker, what were the issues and how long ago? Other people seem to have had decent experiences with it

I’m not doubting it’s possible but with the combination of my hardware and the fact I’m on nixos it proved to be too much trial and error, too many options to try and too much time to iterate as I needed to reboot every time it didn’t work

Yeah to be fair I agree, I’ve been having an issue with suspend on my current laptop which I decided to just ignore in the end cause it was frustrating me so much

Though installing other people’s random scripts and plugins is a good way to get an unstable broken system

Nixos is great to still be able to fiddle while staying stable given you can just boot an earlier install if you fuck up, also throwaway dev shells with temporary installed packages. Might be worth giving it a go

If it doesn’t spin up at max CPU usage then builds won’t be a problem. I suppose ai might make it spin up but I’m not exactly doing that stuff every day anyway

Not number one concern but I need it to survive long enough that I’m not just permanently plugging in everywhere I go

Not as bad if it’s usb c charge I’ll have to check that

Hm, I think I need to try and track down someone local who’s got one and see for myself to be honest, I would guess places like pc world won’t have tester models

Ahhh my bad I didn’t read your comment properly, assumed you meant with a desktop running already

I’m not planning on getting the GPU anyway, most of my work is done from a terminal and a browser in a lightweight window manager, as long as the integrated graphics can handle that it’ll be fine

I’d love to be able to ditch the gui entirely, I’ve found working from a TTY really helps me focus on the actual work I’m supposed to be doing

Unfortunately the one impossible hurdle is the web browser. Have kinda got around the need for it mostly with an llm cli for basic questions but will always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually

Also doesn’t help that I’m primarily a web developer

Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2

Ah that is irritating, I tend to have my ThinkPad on my lap every now and again and it’s usually because it’s in a public place without a desk. Would be pretty annoying for the fan to suddenly go crazy in public

Doesn’t work, I’ve already spent ages trying to get this to work properly and have basically just given up at this point.

I don’t mind waiting for it to recover from hibernation, I only hibernate it once or twice a day anyway

No issues with battery life or fan noise? That’s what I’m hearing from others

Ah interesting, I was considering not bothering with the GPU as I only plan to use the thing for work anyway

What’s the battery life like without, I heard from someone else 3 or 4 hours of normal usage but unsure if that’s with or without

Entirely fair I am a nerd

My experience of Linux has been that it needs a certain amount of tinkering to function properly and my experience of people who make statements about supported configurations is that they are not willing to put up with that

Agree with that windows is a horrible user experience by comparison but it’s the most likely to just work and be supportable

I meant the framework, but fair enough

Supposedly the newer macs were quite good at heat dissipation, was that iBullshit?

What exactly is a CMOS battery?