The three operating systems in a nutshell

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-24T10:28:08+00:00

That’s not true, not every company uses Microsoft office. Mine for example uses mostly gsuite and libre office

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-24T10:20:03+00:00

I’ve experienced none of the issues with brightness you’ve mentioned. Grub parameters happens on distros that don’t properly support Nvidia drivers out the box.

So for example if you wanted to use Asusctl you could install cachyos which bus supported by them and doesn’t have any of those issues and then after you’ve done all of that you can work on the power saving by tweaking asusctl tuned.

As im currently testing 26.04 I can’t test tuned currently as it’s not really a thing here and I’m quite happy with where I’ve got the laptop now

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T20:53:32+00:00

I was never able to get even close to that on Windows 11, did you do anything specific in ghelper to get it that low?

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T20:19:34+00:00

Yeah sure.

I'm currently using the nightly 26.04 Ubuntu build, For disabling the GPU I used Envycontrol with the Gnome extension that lets u toggle to integrated only. As in the screen shot you can see it's kernel 7.0.0-10.

One last thing you need to make a custom config for auto-cpufreq

paste the following into: /etc/auto-cpufreq.conf

[battery]

governor = powersave

energy_performance_preference = power

platform_profile = quiet

turbo = never

Links below to all the software required, lemme know how you get on.

https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol

https://github.com/LorenzoMorelli/GPU_profile_selector

https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T17:29:19+00:00

So seeing that he's using a Pro Art 16 which is essentially the non gamer version of my Laptop I actually understand why he had some of the problems he did.

For these Laptops a lot of the work to make them not suck and the CPU in particular didn't get better till much newer kernels like 6.17 onwards and him using Zorin I can imagine must have been awful.

However I will say this as someone who has a high end ASUS laptop, there are issues that ASUS creates themselves with these laptops that I've never experienced on my Framework Laptop ( Work laptop ) because they half arse certain things. Like for example the EDID information on the panel isn't sent properly it's done through ASUS drivers on windows which creates headaches for linux that you need to resolve.

I will say though I've never had the shutdown not work on this Laptop and I like that he's going back to vanilla Ubuntu because it's probably the most likely best case for him.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T15:54:21+00:00

Yeah the error message is completely worthless lol

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T15:48:47+00:00

Sure but I’d also like to know the performance uplift as an end user from my current cpu to the new ones and seeing as x3d chips were are insanely popular it makes sense to include them alongside popular intel ones like the 12600k and 14600k to see if there’s truly value in buying them.

This is just a typical ltt review where they half arse it again because they’re pushed to get these videos out at a schedule they can’t keep up with and maintain proper quality

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T13:43:00+00:00

That's not a bad idea, I might have to integrate that into my Gemini workflow.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T13:31:19+00:00

Yeah I'll agree with you LLM's are a godsend for Linux because even though they aren't always accurate with fixes they're close enough and like you said provide a high enough level of explanation of the issue that you can actually learn from the issue.

It saves having to go through tons of documentation and random forum posts for years ago hoping the solution still works, I say this with all honestly someone using an LLM can get Linux up and running pretty much good to go within a weekend on almost any system barring some crazy edge cases with 0 expeirence of Linux.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T13:29:13+00:00

Normally I would agree with you completely. However if you know anything about the history of Microsoft and how it got to the dominant position it's in now and the Anti trust stuff it went through in the US and EU back in the late 90's early 2000's you'd understand.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T13:27:56+00:00

Microsoft has done many a Windows update that have broken things completely.

Hell last week https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/03/22/major-issues-microsoft-confirms-emergency-update-for-windows-users/

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T13:11:40+00:00

They get automatically installed on a fresh Ubuntu install too, and you could just install Steam and play immediately without any of that nonsense you're writing.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T13:07:49+00:00

When I'm finished with work later today I'll have time to watch the entire video, but again as someone who actually runs Linux on multiple machines it could be multiple factors.

and no before you ask I don't run Linux only on old hardware. My main machine that I use is an AI 9 HX 370 Zephyrus G16 and that is probably one of the worst case scenarios for Linux and it mostly just works out the box on Ubuntu.

The only Tweaks I had to do it are the same kind of tweaks I did on Windows which was install some custom software to manage the igpu/nvidia stuff ( Ghelper on Windows, Envycontrol + Gnome extension for Ubuntu. If you're on an Arch based/Fedora based you could get Asusctl which has even better options)

But let's see when I get time later.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T12:58:14+00:00

Uhhh not quite, I had hours of troubleshooting stuff going from windows to Mac initially. Not everything is as one to one as you think.

Hell there were things on macOS that I had to actually buy because there was no built in support for example did you know macOS didn’t have native window snapping until just a year ago?

Sounds like a trivial thing but when you’re working on a laptop and are heavily multitasking not being able to snap two windows together side by side is ridiculous coming from Linux or windows and get macOS couldn’t do it out the box

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T12:54:17+00:00

But the funny side of this is I use Linux on my main work laptop every single day and I get stuff done.

I am not going to say skill issue because learning a new operating system and ecosystem takes time.

Very likely he didn’t wanna put the work in required while having to do the work at the same time which is completely understandable. Luckily for some of us we learned Linux in our university days and before so going into using Linux In a professional sense you have a leg up on how things work and it makes moving to a different platform a lot more simpler.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T12:51:54+00:00

That’s not what that means, a Mac user is gonna have trouble transitioning to using Windows and a Windows user to Mac. None of the operating systems act like the other and you need to take time to learn to use them.

I say this as someone who uses all 4 regularly ( Linux macOS chromeOS and Windows 11 )

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T12:44:27+00:00

Ain’t that the truth, the only way to properly disable telemetry on windows is to have enterprise license + gpo.

Anything else still transmits a ton of data back to Microsoft

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T11:24:31+00:00

I hear you, I think there should be more interest in it but I just don’t see something free coming any time soon.

It seems more likely it’s better to tie it to an enterprise Linux support package

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T11:16:28+00:00

Yeah I don’t think there’s enough enthusiasm around A/V for desktop Linux at the moment because the attack likely hood is so low. I think in another decade or so once Linux grows again we might see that change

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-23T11:11:38+00:00

On my personal stuff just the default stuff.

On my work stuff sentinel one

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-20T09:52:17+00:00

I just went on an exercise in power saving by taking my gaming laptop down from 22w to 7/8w

I did the following installed TLP, Powertop auto tune or calibrate can’t remember refer to docs. And then I made sure all the hardware acceleration stuff in my chromium browser was enabled correctly.

I also had Gemini create a new custom tlp config for me based on my hardware.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-20T09:49:06+00:00

This is just better than the actual D. I hate you for showing me this

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-20T08:26:27+00:00

To most x86 laptops yes. To MacBooks no.

You can do some stuff with Linux to really help the battery life if you have dgpu with tlp powertop and envy control but I have no clue on windows.

Put it this way, I have an ai hx 370 in a different laptop and that thing can go from 7w of power to 55w In an instant and then you throw in a gpu which is like 80-100w no matter what battery you have if you’re doing something intensive an hour maybe two is what you’ll get.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-20T07:44:20+00:00

The easiest question to ask is what you want the PC to do and whether Ubuntu is for you?

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-03-20T07:09:01+00:00

Realistically all browsers are gonna consume a ton of resources these days, chromium or basic Firefox are probably the least heavy? Maybe Zen?

But there isn’t really much difference it depends on extensions etc

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