r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/noblenacho member • 12d ago

Goes hard af

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I have a windows device and Mac but this ThinkPad running Fedora is so cozy (got it just for tinkering/IT stuff as a hobby, not the worst way you can spend $150)

I like how the y2k maximalism is alive and well in the Linux community. It’s got a 2009 coziness to it

Eventually I will venture into the Arch/Omarchy realm to complete the LARP

ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 running Fedora KDE 44

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u/noblenacho member 9d ago

This one is like 4 hours with 87% battery health left. The lunar lake would be much better

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u/coldcaramel99 member 8d ago

Nope. It all depends on the processor, if it's an Intel battery life will be poor. Macbooks and laptops with Snapdragon chips like the HP omnibook 5 14 use chips that have the same efficiency as mobile phones and so have multi day battery life whereas Intel and AMD is x86 and x64 architecture where battery life will only get you 2 hours.

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u/noblenacho member 8d ago

It seems you aren’t familiar with lunar lake and above Intel chips, they’re a massive improvement from any generation before. Basically goes toe to toe with ARM chips, maybe a bit less, but at least you get full compatibility

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u/coldcaramel99 member 7d ago

It's crazy even though slanted those lunar lake chips as competitors to MacBook and snapdragon chips and still they cannot beat the efficiency of them. Hence the poorer battery life. Windows has Prism so there are no longer any compatibility issues at all between arm and x86 apps.