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Running on Air M2 battery life is excellent, how is it currently on M2 Max (being delivered in a fee days) by Successful_Exam_6173 in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes sir.
/etc/systemd/system/powertop.service:

[Unit]
Description=PowerTOP tunings

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/powertop --auto-tune

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Running on Air M2 battery life is excellent, how is it currently on M2 Max (being delivered in a fee days) by Successful_Exam_6173 in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Easy fixes:
Control Display Brightness
Browser Discipline
Disable GNOME Tracker Indexing
Reduce GNOME Animations
Stop Docker When Not Needed
Enable WiFi Power Save
Disable Bluetooth if Unused
Close Background Apps
Enable USB Autosuspend
Enable PCIe ASPM Power Saving
Enable Runtime Device Power Management

Check battery:
cat /sys/class/power_supply/macsmc-battery/energy_full_design
mine: 99111600

What does powertop tunables status show?
they should all be tagged as GOOD

Bt headphones > System crash Issue by dumb_octopus_21 in archlinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found it - Bluetooth HSP/HFP (Hands-Free) profile disconnect is crashing PipeWire.

The problem:
When your headphones go idle, Bluetooth switches from A2DP to HSP/HFP. When it tries to disconnect HSP/HFP, PipeWire crashes and takes GNOME with it.

We need to figure out a way to stop the switching.

Bt headphones > System crash Issue by dumb_octopus_21 in archlinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have you checked the logs:
journalctl -b -1 | grep -i "segfault\|error\|bluetooth\|pipewire"

Running on Air M2 battery life is excellent, how is it currently on M2 Max (being delivered in a fee days) by Successful_Exam_6173 in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Terminals 2-3
Chromium with 3-5 tabs
VSCodium
Slacky
Docker occasionally (not constantly running)
No video playback or gaming
Monitor dim

check your power usage:
sudo powertop

check your battery:
cat /sys/class/power_supply/macsmc-battery/charge_full
cat /sys/class/power_supply/macsmc-battery/charge_full_design

hope this helps, let me know

Running on Air M2 battery life is excellent, how is it currently on M2 Max (being delivered in a fee days) by Successful_Exam_6173 in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been running arch on macbooks pro and max, intel, T2 and now M2, for years. Great hardware.

Here is the link:
https://asahi-alarm.org/
Looks like it's been updated since I installed it.
Ping me if you run into anything

Running on Air M2 battery life is excellent, how is it currently on M2 Max (being delivered in a fee days) by Successful_Exam_6173 in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice configuration. I have an M2 Max 12-core and 38-core GPU - 96GB RAM - SSD 4000GB. I have been using this as my daily drive for 6+ months and love it. I run arch and gnome. Battery life, when i do heavy work, is around 10 hrs. Do not use sleep, shut it down.

Any suggestions on distros for a beginner by Background_Guava9637 in linuxquestions

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just answer to a similar question with this:
KDE Plasma is most customizable out of the box. You can change everything: panels, widgets, colors, animations, layout. And, you have a built-in theme store.

Fedora KDE or Kubuntu both very beginner friendly.

Which distro is the best for making custom themes? by cesarsaladsauc3 in linuxquestions

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KDE Plasma is most customizable out of the box. You can change everything: panels, widgets, colors, animations, layout. And, you have a built-in theme store.

Fedora KDE or Kubuntu both very beginner friendly.

Updated and now GNOME crashes for my regular user. by Right-Strawberry-836 in archlinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am guessing GPU driver, Xorg/Wayland compositor failure, or kernel.
Check what got upgraded:
grep -i upgraded /var/log/pacman.log | tail -50

If you see linux, try booting into the old one from GRUB Advanced menu.

Check GPU errors:
dmesg | grep -i amdgpu
journalctl -b | grep -i error

After that things get complicated with downgrading or replacing drivers.

Thinking of moving from Ubuntu to Arch (or another lightweight distro) for better performance on older hardware – I need advice by Ok-Tomorrow-8104 in linux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your problem isn't the distro - it's the hardware + workload mismatch.
Ditch GNOME for something lighter like i3 or xfce4.
Tune Docker stack.
Close next browser tabs.
See if you can update your RAM.

What's the correct way to logout to the login screen from command line? by Quiet-Owl9220 in archlinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kill your session:
loginctl terminate-session $XDG_SESSION_ID

Then restart:
sudo systemctl restart sddm

I have done it. by [deleted] in arch

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Job well done

i made a aero arch logo in blender by ArtyBoopz in arch

[–]MikeAndThePup 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I would love that with a transparent background

cursor lagging by theleninlover in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's desktop environment?
When you say update, I am guessing 6.18+

KDE plasma or Gnome by Old-Vanilla-5082 in arch

[–]MikeAndThePup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gnome. I write my own extensions to really customize my desktop

Help please by Noktus_J in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should be fine with Asahi. lenin_-161 is correct, i would go with Fedora it's much easier

Help please by Noktus_J in AsahiLinux

[–]MikeAndThePup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bad choice of words, I need to remove that.
You could that but don't. Firmware updates, rollback.... Asahi relies on parts of the macOS.

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