From 5d3dcadb31ca97b6dfe8df4824662f71cccff70d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: steeb Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:22:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6f9f61f..319242f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # Linux on the Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 +**11/22/2024 - Update:** I'm back on Debian Sid. So far, so good - but there's still testing to be done, especially in regards to suspend. -The short and sweet (as of April 28, 2024): Fedora seems to be the winner here. It has so far required the least amount of finagling to get things working (particularly Howdy), it hands-down has the lowest power consumption, and has more software support than either Debian (disappointingly - as this is what all of my server boxes run) or NixOS (at least for standard repos.) Arch has as much up-to-date software, but is generally harder to configure and has more update issues. +The short and sweet (as of April 28, 2024): Fedora seems to be the winner here. It has so far required the least amount of finagling to get things working (particularly Howdy), it hands-down has the lowest power consumption, and has more software support than either Debian (disappointingly - as this is what all of my server boxes run) or NixOS (at least for standard repos.) Arch has as much up-to-date software, but is generally harder to configure and has more update issues. There is pretty much always a chance I'll return to NixOS, as it was the most reliable and configurable, but new issues are more difficult to address when they come up. @@ -47,8 +48,16 @@ sudo semodule -i howdy.pp Source: [linuxreviews.org](https://linuxreviews.org/Howdy/SELinux) / [archive.is](https://archive.is/Kuv8L) +## Debian + +Everything comes back to Debian. All the packages are for Debian (or Ubuntu). Chasing my tail in circles to get to the point of any issue while hoping that Fedora's pretty-up-to-date-but-not-quite-up-to-date packages would work have driven me insane. I hate `dnf`, I hate RPMFusion. Debian let me switch to "unstable" with just a few little switches and now everything is hunky dory. + +Maybe next I'll install Ubuntu and actually just enjoy a functional OS instead of being a freak. + ## GPU Crash Fixes +**11/22/2024 - Update to all of this:** This issue seems to have either a.) eventually killed the motherboard AND display panel, or b.) be completely unrelated and I have a SECOND dying motherboard and display panel, as the issue came back even with this fix applied. Lovely! I'm trying out Debian Sid for the time being to see if it's any more reliable. For now, this fix is not applied. + **Starting with Linux kernel 6.1, "Panel Self Refresh" or PSR, will cause crashes. You must stop this from running in order to get reliable resume.** Sometimes this causes awful performance, sometimes the screen displays graphical glitches (which I was interpreting as contrast issues.) On occasion, I have also experienced random graphical glitches (mostly at the login screen) and occasional GDM crashes. @@ -68,6 +77,8 @@ sudo dnf reinstall shim-\* grub2-efi-\* grub2-common ## Power Management Fixes (Suspend) +**11/22/2024 - Update: Still testing, but this issue has not come up during a full day of use on Debian Sid running kernel version 6.11.9.** + **As of April 2024, if you run a kernel newer than 6.0, chances are that you *NEED* this to have sleep work properly!** So, as mentioned earlier, all versions of the Linux kernel (with the bizarre exception of 6.5) would cause my laptop to occasionally fail to wake from sleep (or go into sleep - I never got this nailed down, since Nix made rolling back very very very simple.) What seems to have worked (as of April 29, 2024 on kernel version 6.8.7):