Hi Roger, On Thursday, 20 December 2018 11:44:05 CET, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
The reports I have read seem mainly to be about the CPU being busier than it should be. Seems that there are some BIOS settings that effect this. I cannot observe this behavior. However, the 'sleep' mode is somewhat power- hungry, and the battery drains in sleep mode too fast.
I have read that people are getting best results when not installing drivers for the NVIDIA. The issues seem to be a mix of decreased battery time when the NVIDIA is used and some issues with screen artifacts. I specifically went for the non-NVIDIA version as I wanted a more enduring device.
Did you let the openSUSE install manage setting up the dual boot? Did you shrink the W10 partition in Windows? IIRC I proceeded as follows:
- Replace hard drive with a larger SSD (which was cheaper than buying the laptop with a larger SSD from the beginning) - Install Windows, manually partition HDD - Install Tumbleweed, the installer managed dual-booting for me.
Would you recommend the laptop for use with openSUSE?
Yes (aka I have seen worse). Full hardware support would be better, but I assume it will happen someday soon. HTH Dimitri