The Asus and Surface images ship the asus-linux.org and linux-surface kernels, respectively. The Framework image ships recommended power settings for the Framework 13 laptop. All of them allow for user-overridden configuration.
Does it support adjusting battery charging limit in GUI?
I don’t think you should enable that by default as I see it in the PR. That is going to put the EPP into power on battery which is too aggressive for most battery use. You want it in balance_power which is what PPD 0.21 does.
Just wanted to give Bluefin a huge shout out! I have been messing with it the past few days, and it has been the best performing desktop Linux I have ever used. Little bit of a learning curve but all for very good reason.
Power management, for example, has been amazing. My normal workload with Windows 11 or Ubuntu 22.04 has the CPU sitting at right around 42-45C. The same workload sees Bluefin sitting at 39C consistently. Better efficiency than Windows and Linux out of the box.
Just really great work and I’m loving this focus on the Framework laptops and desktop Linux!
Wow! This OS is fantastic out of the box on my AMD Framework. Seeing lower wattage draws at idle without any tuning than any OS I’ve tried. The default packages included are great, and the UI is beautiful and intuitive. I really like the Bluefin philosophy on system maintenance as well. I’ll be running this for the foreseeable future.
I’m very interested in low maintenance; it just works OS. With Bluefin, I need help with printing. Is there a simple way to get printers working within Bluefin? I can print test pages on both my Brother and Epson, but when I try to print from LibreOffice, Firefox, or Chrome, I can’t. It doesn’t see the printers.