i'm talking like, nothing i did helped raise my battery life past 2h on any linux distro without shutting down the GPU and half of my CPU cores. switching to windows brought it to 7h without compromise...

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aw dang. My condolences.

Your kernel probably wasnt suited for your system. For example I need to use a specialised Kernel to run Linux on my Surface Go, otherwise it overheats :D

[–] tilcica@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah. sleep didnt work and it boosted fans to max most of the time

if you find/know of any good ones for a lenovo legion 5 pro, please share hahaha (ryzen 5 6600u, nvidia 3060)

[–] far_university1990@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/cszach/linux-on-lenovo-legion

fedora
links to LenovoLegionLinux for fan control

https://laptopwiki.eu/laptopwiki/guides/lenovo/legion5_2021_linux

maybe too generic for your problems

https://github.com/wottreng/Linux-Mint-on-Lenovo-Legion-5

mint

https://github.com/johnfanv2/LenovoLegionLinux

extra software and kernel stuff
many distros supported
mentions high fan speed

some mentions of „battery saver mode“ and nvidia gpu misbehaving with old driver.

search term: „lenovo legion 5 pro linux“ search engine: duckduckgo

[–] tilcica@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

thanks, will explore a bit

i had to manually install the latest drivers because nothing else worked so old drivers isnt a problem. i also tried ubuntu, arch (standalone), garuda (arch based), mint and all had this problem. didnt find any info on lenovolegionlinux so will check it out

what i did find was a lot of people having problems with linux on this exact laptop

[–] sock@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

windows would probably work out the box and will likely never fail like linux does

[–] tilcica@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

i have windows 10 home on it rn but i really wanted this to be a linux laptop