I'm doing some battery life testing on the Framework 13 and just discovered that Ubuntu MATE 24.04 retired the Welcome screen.
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@Akzel I haven't seen anything that replaces it. MATE Tweak only has some basic panel and window customizations.
And Software Boutique was replaced with App Center...
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Seasons of Jasonreplied to Seasons of Jason last edited by [email protected]
AND it gets an hour less battery life than Fedora 40 using the same rundown test?!
Well, now my disappointment is doubled. I was honestly expecting it to have better power efficiency.
This is not what I was expecting from Ubuntu MATE based on the times I used it circa 2019/2020.
Well, let's try Peppermint OS next.
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@killyourfm Interesting. I am mostly running Nobara GNOME these days and hearing the battery life getting that tanked using such a simple interface is genuinely surprising.
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@ernie Yea, it feels as if something (I don't know what) has changed with MATE...
Background on this testing: I'm specifically looking for lightweight / power efficient distros (that still have a nice aesthetic) for long backpacking trips, or just extended periods of time out in nature.
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@killyourfm Not a bad idea. I will note that, if you’re willing to test a different machine, I average 10+ hours on Asahi Fedora Remix on my M1 MacBook Air.
I get why the Framework is a good choice for this, though.
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@ernie But... I also have an M1 MacBook Pro. Hmm.
What's your rough workload/activity for that 10+ hours? That's quite good! -
Seasons of Jasonreplied to Seasons of Jason last edited by
@ernie One note about the Framework though: the standby battery life is the machine's Achilles heel. It drains about 1% per hour, which is awful.
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@killyourfm Watching videos, surfing, and screwing around on various projects. It’s a laze-about machine. (I use an HP Envy as my main machine, mostly because of screen size.) Probably wouldn’t get that playing a game. But the GPU optimizations the Asahi team have made it equivalent to running on MacOS battery-wise.
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@ernie OK, awesome! Then it's definitely time to finally try Linux on Apple Silicon!
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BaltMatrix 🤖replied to Seasons of Jason last edited by
@killyourfm oh wow. That nuts. I know on my 2018 X1 Carbon any Ubuntu spin gets terrible battery life. I wonder what the cause is.
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Seasons of Jasonreplied to BaltMatrix 🤖 last edited by
@baltmatrix What distro do you lean on for long battery life? Ordinarily I'd go with something using Xfce, but that's still not ready to play nice with 3K/4K screens
