Programmer by day, burnt out by night.

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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • They have done 4 year windows before, and we still cannot know for sure how long for example the macbook m1 will be supported, still.

    That said, 4-7 years for a laptop of that price seems short, I also don’t understand why they have to bring mobile OS support windows to laptops in the first place.

    When it comes to update support, it seems odd to me to recommend Apple’s computers when they literally have a mobile OS’ support window to the OS.



  • Although, Apple also just decides to make updates unavailable for your device once it’s a few years old, so there’s that.

    Windows on a Dell XPS laptop was a good experience, firmware (and Windows) updates always came instantly. With Linux I have to keep an eye out for BIOS updates from time to time but Dell does not shy away from releasing BIOS updates for an over 7 years old laptop. Probably because their newer laptops use the same BIOS, but still!




  • I’m running (Ubuntu based) Mint Cinnamon. My laptop came with Ubuntu pre-installed and thus the BIOS pre-configured.

    If I put the laptop to sleep and wake it from sleep again, it messed up the fonts but only VEEERY occasionally.

    The fingerprint scanner doesn’t work with any of the drivers/software I’ve tried, which is a huge bummer.
    When I dual-booted Windows on it for software for school, I noticed it worked splendidly on Windows without any installation.

    The battery life went from 11h to 40m during my normal usage, this happened in a span of 4 years.
    I’ve replaced the battery with an aftermarket one, which also went from 9h to 2h battery life in about 2.5y.
    I’ve rarely had the battery drained below 5%, but it did run until the last percentage the few times it happend (on the original battery)

    I’ve never had black screens or screen flickering like you described on this laptop, but putting my desktop PC to sleep on Linux Mint does cause it to wake up to an unrecoverable black screen.
    My laptop’s also never had the connectivity issues.
    Nor anything else.

    My experience has been really good, and I plan to continue using this until even a new battery won’t do good.
    That might be due to Mint’s pre-installed software, I don’t know.