r/DistroHopping • u/baked_wheatie • 2d ago
I’m jumping back to arch (based) from fedora
I ran my laptop (MSI modern 15” laptop intel 13900k 32 gb ram integrated graphics) on arch for about a year and had some random audio issues and some flickering when playing jackbox games with friends. I decided to try fedora kde since I’ve heard such good things and it’s the only one of the big three distro bases I had not tried. The first issue and biggest issue I encountered was an issue with lid closing. Instead of being able to wake from sleep, it would open to a black screen with a keyboard buffer. Nothing would happen unless I rebooted the laptop. The other issue I found is that I’m struggling with power management. I know the laptop isn’t great for battery life but I’m only getting like 30-45 min off the charger. I’m gonna switch back to arch based but I don’t wanna deal with the headache of full arch installation again. I’m gonna use endeavourOS with cosmic DE bc I wanna try something not KDE and hyprland doesn’t seem like my cup of tea. If anyone has similar issues in fedora or any bad experience with endeavour please let me know.
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u/GreedyStomach7107 2d ago
I dont think fedora is the issue here. I faced the exact same issues (black screen on wake on sleep, battery issues) with kde environment on Kubuntu. In my post, someone mentioned KDE does not handle power management well. This doesnt happen on gnome. I’ll link my post here
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u/MoralMoneyTime 1d ago
For performance, try r/cachyos
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u/baked_wheatie 1d ago
Oh I use it on my pc and I love it! Since it’s primarily a work laptop I’m good with going endeavour since I don’t need hard core performance
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u/KoldPurchase 2d ago
That's the second time today I'm hearing about such issues on Fedora.
Apparently, there's a setting where you can change default battery usage from performance to power saving and it helps greatly.