long time Ubuntu user here, had been bulletproof on an i5 Panasonic toughbook until 24.04 and now it’s not so stable. Sleep also stopped working correctly on an i5 Lenovo yoga and I downgraded that one back to 22.04.
However that same distro runs smoothly (and the UI isn’t constantly glitching out) on an i7 thinkpad that I don’t enjoy using because it runs red hot and the fan is always going…. FWIW that’s also the only system I have that’s even capable of running win11 smoothly… but up until now, Linux was great on castaways that windows had forgotten.
I have acpi and charging issues on the stock 24.04 kernel tree with the Panasonic , which is a laptop that supports two batteries. If either battery gets pulled on that platform it stops charging on AC.
This issue isn’t present after putting Ubuntu packages for kernel 6.14 on it , which only came out two weeks ago.
It still wanders all over the place as far as whether I can get 8 hours on a charge (or two hours), swapping the batteries confuses the system still and I haven’t had the free time recently to nail down whether this is acpi, kernel, or Ubuntu specifically. I’ve mumbled a little bit about that one on launchpad and ordered a second battery for a different laptop that has that capability but don’t have answers yet.
Would need to know your Bluetooth chipset to speculate too much because some bleeding combo cards with wifi6 are also better supported by recent kernels. For example my Intel BE200 worked fine for WiFi but the Bluetooth didn’t work at all until either 24.04 or applying 6.14 to it. Not sure which, I just noticed it was there in the menu about a week ago.
with that said my laptop still has a resource conflict I haven’t pinned down where, when WiFi and wwan card are both powered on and active my WiFi speed is clipped down to about 2mb/s. I’m just powering the wwan off when I don’t need it and I’m inclined to think it’s still a driver issue or the two cards don’t get along or are conflicting for resources somehow… I don’t have a solid enough theory to report it as a “bug” or know for sure whether it’s just my hardware yet.
Ubuntu and Wayland were the first distro where I went “hey, using Linux on the desktop finally isn’t *ss” so I’ll give them that. But 24.04 has been the one that had me wondering if it’s time to get acquainted with another. Many are mentioned ITT, I just haven’t “distro hopped” and “tried them all” in almost two decades and it may be time again.
long time Ubuntu user here, had been bulletproof on an i5 Panasonic toughbook until 24.04 and now it’s not so stable. Sleep also stopped working correctly on an i5 Lenovo yoga and I downgraded that one back to 22.04.
However that same distro runs smoothly (and the UI isn’t constantly glitching out) on an i7 thinkpad that I don’t enjoy using because it runs red hot and the fan is always going…. FWIW that’s also the only system I have that’s even capable of running win11 smoothly… but up until now, Linux was great on castaways that windows had forgotten.
I have acpi and charging issues on the stock 24.04 kernel tree with the Panasonic , which is a laptop that supports two batteries. If either battery gets pulled on that platform it stops charging on AC.
This issue isn’t present after putting Ubuntu packages for kernel 6.14 on it , which only came out two weeks ago.
It still wanders all over the place as far as whether I can get 8 hours on a charge (or two hours), swapping the batteries confuses the system still and I haven’t had the free time recently to nail down whether this is acpi, kernel, or Ubuntu specifically. I’ve mumbled a little bit about that one on launchpad and ordered a second battery for a different laptop that has that capability but don’t have answers yet.
Would need to know your Bluetooth chipset to speculate too much because some bleeding combo cards with wifi6 are also better supported by recent kernels. For example my Intel BE200 worked fine for WiFi but the Bluetooth didn’t work at all until either 24.04 or applying 6.14 to it. Not sure which, I just noticed it was there in the menu about a week ago.
with that said my laptop still has a resource conflict I haven’t pinned down where, when WiFi and wwan card are both powered on and active my WiFi speed is clipped down to about 2mb/s. I’m just powering the wwan off when I don’t need it and I’m inclined to think it’s still a driver issue or the two cards don’t get along or are conflicting for resources somehow… I don’t have a solid enough theory to report it as a “bug” or know for sure whether it’s just my hardware yet.
Ubuntu and Wayland were the first distro where I went “hey, using Linux on the desktop finally isn’t *ss” so I’ll give them that. But 24.04 has been the one that had me wondering if it’s time to get acquainted with another. Many are mentioned ITT, I just haven’t “distro hopped” and “tried them all” in almost two decades and it may be time again.