this if from a F38 live image.
idle on battery:
load on battery:
charging idle:
charging load:
battery is (or should be) 7.6V 42Wh. BIOS rates condition as excellent, 92% battery health. no visible deformations, as stated.
naturally, during this whole period the screen didn't flicker once.
that seems reasonable but I don’t trust my chubby fingers, everything is so tiny I’m afraid I’ll short something.
I'm also trying to get the flicker-free boot. switching to systemd-boot improved the jerkyness, but the blank before the decrypt password remains.
I've enabled suspend-then-hibernate and whereas earlier I've had to endure this jerkyness rarely, now I have to witness it multiple times a day when resuming from disk. at least it's faster than cold boot.
QOwnNotes (had to look up the exact name as it's the stupidest app name ever). but compared to joplin it's lighter, faster, simpler (no database but individual .md files and folders) and works well enough with syncthing.
I'm not calling you a reactionary, just seen way too many people maintaining "this is fine" for issues that are anything but.
pipewire sucked a lot for the longest time, at least for several setups I know. but it got better and more dependable by getting forced onto users. if it had waited to be 100%, it wouldn't ever be in production.
this is a "build the plane while flying it" situation, if the stress on the vanguard is not for you, then step back for a while and try again in a couple of months, you have options.
I have no direct experience with any pen related issues but kudos for taking the time to open all them reports. sooner or later, someone is going to tackle those issues. let's hope it's soon.
there's a lot of things that need to be re-implemented in wayland and it currently sucks for a lot of people; but forcing change by pushing wayland onto the users is the only way forward, way too many people are comfortable with status quo.
yeah, if you don't have an encrypted drive (which I'm gonna do on a laptop NEVER) on some OEMs this can look semi-seamless.
here's what it looks like on a laptop:
with additional mode switching interjected and occasionally the horror that is GRUB inserts a 'Loading blah blah' text message; thankfully we're getting rid of that.
This latest UKI work for Fedora will lead to better UEFI Secure Boot support, better supporting TPM measurements and confidential computing, and a more robust boot process.
and HOPEFULLY lead to a less jerky-flashy-switchy boot xperience, looks like a Vegas light show at present. switched to systemd-boot, but it's only a tiny bit better, still switches modes/blanks screen like five times.
it's a lackluster experience which ever way you turn. plasma has a better touch experience and consistency but its keyboard (maliit was it?) is horrible. GNOME's keyboard is better but still crap.
everything feels like a proof-of-concept, something that was shipped in this sorta-works state and left. if you've ever used an android tablet, this is a long, long way off.
GNOME terrorized us for a decade with those comically gigantic UI elements because it's supposedly touch friendly but the moment you start touching them it feels like utter crap.
try running android x86 on it, I had some good experiences with bliss OS. old kernels there, so hardware support is hit n miss.
sadly that's not an option at this point.