all that and Linux SUCKS for laptop battery life. It halved my battery no matter the distro.

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    10 months ago

    Have you tried KDE? It took me a year to change from GNOME but it was well worth it. I don’t use a laptop so not sure if switching DE will affect battery life.

    It could be a problem with hibernation and sleep. My desktop will never hibernate or sleep, doesn’t matter the distro: Fedora, Pop or Tumbleweed. Maybe look into that as well?

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      10 months ago

      Do you have Nvidia GPU? I couldn’t put a laptop with Nvidia GPU into sleep with the Nouveau driver. I had to install the official proprietary driver AND switch to Linux kernel 5.4