Comment by snarkconjecture
21 hours ago
I am much more likely to fault them for omitting important information specifically to hide a weak point of the product rather than out of laziness.
21 hours ago
I am much more likely to fault them for omitting important information specifically to hide a weak point of the product rather than out of laziness.
It's not a weak point of their product; it's a weak point of Linux.
It's really not. Leaving aside Android because that has a very different userspace, Chromebooks have excellent battery life even when not running ChromeOS, because they have proper drivers and someone actually bothered optimizing for power efficiency. And there are plenty of cases of people switching a machine from Windows to some Linux distro and significantly improving battery life (see elsewhere in this comment section). So no, if a given laptop is described as the vendor as "Linux first" and has poor battery life, that's on them.