I’ve been getting fairly good battery life on arch and popOS on my laptop. Think it depends a bit on what laptop you’ve got as well. If I were to guess I’d say my current pop install gets ~10% less battery life than on windows, while I was probably even closer than that on arch after a bit of tinkering.

As a Swede who don’t really care about cars (wouldn’t own one if it wasn’t necessary for where I live and what I do for work), and hadn’t kept up with Musk, or Tesla overall, I simply just test drove electric vehicles until I found one that fit my needs, and that was the model 3. This was a few years ago, and I will never buy a Tesla again.

I actually still like the car, but I feel embarrassed driving it around now that I know more about the company and Musk…

Not in a financial position to change car atm, but if I was, I’d definitely go for an Ioniq 6 this time around.

Imo it’s been very easy. I recommend starting out by installing it on old hardware you don’t care about anymore, or in a VM, just to get a feel for if it’s something you feel is worth your time getting into, and if you want to keep using it, you can dual boot it along with windows. I particularly recommend PopOS as a great Linux distro to start out with, as it’s a simpler and in most ways better fork of Ubuntu.

As it doesn’t cost more than your time, and as long as tinkering with stuff like this is something you’re at least somewhat interested in, I don’t see any reason not to try it out again. But as with everything, there’s no guarantee Linux is perfect for your use cases and you might be better off with windows, so don’t feel bad for sticking with it if that’s the case for whatever reason!

Worst part is that they actually started out kind of great, and killed all alternatives. Then they became progressively worse because of their predatory algorithms and whatnot, and now it’s borderline impossible to get friends and family to switch to an alternative like mastodon or pixelfed…

That’s understandable then, a lot has happened and the installation process in most distros is extremely user friendly and automated these days.

Like others have said, file sharing works pretty well with NTFS. I’ve had some issues playing games on steam that are on NTFS drives, but most work well. Also some issues accessing files from Cura for some reason. Other than that I have had no issues sharing files between w11 and Linux.

If you can, I recommend getting a dedicated SSD to install Linux on, and I’d recommend getting PopOS or Linux Mint as your distro. Both are Debian/Ubuntu derivatives, but are even easier and just overall better distros than Ubuntu imo, and most hardware and software will be compatible ootb without any tinkering.

I was fine with w10, but my god w11 has been a real pita for me. Had used Linux on laptops for quite some time before, but w11 was what finally pushed me into transitioning into Linux primarily on my main desktop PC as well.

Now this has me curious, what devices are those? Since transitioning to Linux I’ve installed it on a Mac, a surface pro 4, an old Lenovo laptop, an Asus laptop from 2014, my dedicated LAN desktop PC and my main desktop gaming PC, and none of those have had any issues.

I can highly recommend either using windows as a VM in virtualbox, or simply dual boot. I’m using Linux 99% of the time, but I still boot into windows occasionally for some firmware updates or software that does not work with Linux.

You can also test driving in direct sunlight without sunglasses or the suncover. You get notifications and beeping noises whenever the sun hits them directly, making the lane assist (I refuse to call it autopilot) quite irrational in most weather… It’s actually worse for me than driving in cold weather.

Oh man, this looks so much easier than when I installed Lineage on the Poco F1! Might go for it now that I’ve got a pixel 7

Wanna know what’s even worse? My M3 is equipped with LIDAR, but the functionality has been patched away because they don’t want to develop for it since all their new cars only have cameras… So even though I have what’s in practice a way better system equipped, my lane assist (won’t call it autopilot) is still 100% dependent on the fucking cameras…

I’ve been working with pretty much top tier vision tech, and it’s still so far off from being viable enough. It’s insane how well it works, but to use it in a dynamic environment driving around on roads… Pure madness to believe it will be enough with only cameras in like the next 10-15 years at least (imo).

I bought a Tesla despite my hatred for Musk because it was the only reasonable alternative when it came to electric cars where I live at the time, and got one of the old ones with lidar and cameras. I have this super weak shimmer of hope that they will go back to using both again, since the warning systems and their “autopilot” feel way shittier than it used to since they’ve allegedly patched away the lidar.

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I think you just fell for quite an obvious case of sarcasm.

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Funny how you mention performance as something than matters when claiming nobody is allowed to take a piss at denuvo, when denuvo is known to hamper performance in some cases.

The only example of this I can remember is the launch of Apex Legends, and that was amazing. Came out of nowhere, hit like a bombshell, and is still printing money.

Would be interesting to see if more games could pull it off!

Does it just close or is there a very low res splash screen? I believe these are two issues I’ve had. The first was resolved by unplugging my second monitor and setting the desktop resolution to 1080p from 4k, the second was resolved by just waiting it out for probably over 15 minutes!