Hello all, my sincere apologies if this is not the right place for this.
I have an "old" laptop that has been starting to struggle on W11, it's an ASUS UX430UAR, has an i5-8250u, 8GB DDR3 ram, and a 256GB SSD.
Originally I was thinking of install Debian with XFCE, but realized this hardware can probably run Debian with KDE Plasma 6 just fine.
To preface, my goals with this machine is for development work for school and my own projects, through VSCode. I have my main desktop at home with W11 that I use for gaming.
Now I am quite nit picky about certain things and I do make sure everything is running as it should be, so here are some preliminary findings after installing Deb 12 with KDE.
Idle ram usage around 1GB measured through htop, I would like to get this under 1GB if possible. Though the GUI KDE performance monitor shows 1.7GB, not sure what that discrepancy is. (W10 1703 Stripped down still used about 2.4Gb)
Idle battery drain is roughly 2.5w-3.5w measured through auto-cpufreq. An improvemnt from windows, which was 4-5w (on an old 1703 W10 build that is stripped down).
Everything else works fine, haven't figure out how to get the fingerprint sensor working yet but thats for another day. My main issue as of now is the boosting algorithm that Linux is using.
So on windows, if I fire up a Cinebench benchmark, the CPU will boost to 3.4 Ghz using the short duration 28w PL which will slowly taper off to the long term 15w PL. Once it reaches the 15w PL it will settle around 2.4 Ghz. This is not modifiable as it is enforced by the embedded ASUS Chip. This is all measured through hwinfo.
On Linux however, no matter if I used TLP, or PPD, or auto-cpufreq, when testing with stress-ng, it will stay at 3.4 Ghz for quite literally, one second, then instantly drop down to 1.8 Ghz - 2.0 Ghz. This is obviously very different from what I have experienced on windows. Measured through i7z.
If anyone has any similar issues, or any experience with this model laptop I would greatly appreciate if anyone has a solution.
This was all done with the charger plugged in.
Thank you all!
I have an "old" laptop that has been starting to struggle on W11, it's an ASUS UX430UAR, has an i5-8250u, 8GB DDR3 ram, and a 256GB SSD.
Originally I was thinking of install Debian with XFCE, but realized this hardware can probably run Debian with KDE Plasma 6 just fine.
To preface, my goals with this machine is for development work for school and my own projects, through VSCode. I have my main desktop at home with W11 that I use for gaming.
Now I am quite nit picky about certain things and I do make sure everything is running as it should be, so here are some preliminary findings after installing Deb 12 with KDE.
Idle ram usage around 1GB measured through htop, I would like to get this under 1GB if possible. Though the GUI KDE performance monitor shows 1.7GB, not sure what that discrepancy is. (W10 1703 Stripped down still used about 2.4Gb)
Idle battery drain is roughly 2.5w-3.5w measured through auto-cpufreq. An improvemnt from windows, which was 4-5w (on an old 1703 W10 build that is stripped down).
Everything else works fine, haven't figure out how to get the fingerprint sensor working yet but thats for another day. My main issue as of now is the boosting algorithm that Linux is using.
So on windows, if I fire up a Cinebench benchmark, the CPU will boost to 3.4 Ghz using the short duration 28w PL which will slowly taper off to the long term 15w PL. Once it reaches the 15w PL it will settle around 2.4 Ghz. This is not modifiable as it is enforced by the embedded ASUS Chip. This is all measured through hwinfo.
On Linux however, no matter if I used TLP, or PPD, or auto-cpufreq, when testing with stress-ng, it will stay at 3.4 Ghz for quite literally, one second, then instantly drop down to 1.8 Ghz - 2.0 Ghz. This is obviously very different from what I have experienced on windows. Measured through i7z.
If anyone has any similar issues, or any experience with this model laptop I would greatly appreciate if anyone has a solution.
This was all done with the charger plugged in.
Thank you all!