Skylake's power management under Linux is dreadful and you shouldn't buy one until it's fixed

Posted by BernardSwiss on Apr 20, 2016 4:40 AM EDT
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Linux 4.5 seems to have got Intel's Skylake platform (ie, 6th-generation Core CPUs) to the point where graphics work pretty reliably, which is great progress (4.4 tended to lose all my windows every so often, especially over suspend/resume). I'm even running Wayland happily. Unfortunately one of the reasons I have a laptop is that I want to be able to do things like use it on battery, and power consumption's an important part of that.

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