And you, what’s your operating system to code ? Me, I use Arch btw

  • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    My company didn’t leave me a choice, I got an XPS 15 which I had to setup with my distro of choice (but all the internal tooling is for Ubuntu, I personally would have preferred to install Fedora or Debian 12 with i3wm).

    It’s not that bad a laptop but it overheats like crazy and has really shit battery life (barely enough for a meeting), and some of its features I can’t explain : why is a 4k touchscreen on a laptop a good thing? It eats 4x the battery for no noticeable visual improvement. I don’t use my laptop 5 inches from my face.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah I remember the first time I tried a 1080p 15" display. Even that I had to look at really hard, can’t imagine a 4k version that actually uses 4k resolution for regular computing.

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      1 year ago

      I remember having bad overheating issues with Linux years ago on an XPS 15 (9560 model if memory serves, so unlike yours no 4k or touch).

      The key on mine was to disable the dedicated GPU which I didn't need anyway. I remember afterwards, mint would run mostly quiet and the battery lasted longer than on the windows partition. If you are interested look up bumblebee on the arch wiki.

      Also I know this reply is late, but maybe it helps.

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        1 year ago

        I already thought about disabling the dedicated GPU on that laptop, but I unfortunately cannot since I need it to train neural networks and the occasional lan party at, work

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          If you set up bumblebee correctly you should be able to enable and disable the dedicated gpu on the fly if i'm not mistaken. Might still help with long teams meetings.