The new Dell XPS Linux battery test and HOLY COW, the battery life is EXCELLENT. A little background: Intel dell omarchy team worked together to get everything working perfectly for the new XPS. I am honestly shocked that I am having a "mac" experience with linux as far as battery life goes.
Here is my test timeline:
Saturday:
99% - 10:07am computer fully charged and on, walking to gate, suspend mode in backpack
99% - 11:00am - compiling rust, running agents, MiMo running on youtube, writing this tweet
80% - 2:00pm - forced to shutdown due landing the plane :( No more work, almost done setting up my machine! Very excited. Vim is there and so is tmux and zsh, but not my wall paper :( And i want to try Aether
75% - 2:30 - 3pm - i watched the new moist critical videos on the guy who threaten to kill people via ring doorbell. woah that was weird.
Sunday: 5PM
75% -> 62% - Sat in suspend mode in my back pack for ~14 hours. I wanted to see where I was at, will open back up in another ~14 hours.
Monday: 7AM
55% -> 5% - Monday: 3 hours of work. Agents are coding, neovim motions flying, youtube playing MiMo. Even took a 40 minute discord team video call and the microphone worked FIRST TRY??
Did... Linux just get a computer where you don't have to worry about battery life? It honestly felt better than my way back in the day Mac Air experiences.
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Things I did not like:
* when the computer wakes up from suspend, its "chunky" for about ~30 seconds.
* the touch pad is annoying. the right click seems like its ~95% of the touch pad and i have a bit of a trouble getting left click regularly.
The new Dell is actually good. I am shocked right now. Omarchy also took 3 minutes to install and I was up and running in 5.
The primary reason why I am using omarchy is because 2 reasons:
1. everyone on my team is using it, makes certain aspects of life easier when everyone is on the *almost* same distro
2. intel dell are working with each other and omarchy has a seat at the table to make things happen. this means i am using the super latest hardware with it perfectly integrated. pretty awesome.
Thanks Dell for sending me the computer for Omacon! I am genuinely stoked for the computer.