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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/OkUniversity93 on 2025-11-07 06:13:26+00:00.

I guess I’m a normie. I like to tinker, I’m good at searching for information, installing/customizing/adjusting everything related to computers, but got zero knowledge of coding. Few years ago, I tried daily driving fedora on t14s gen 2. Everything seemed to work good enough for my workflow, but I had issues with insane power draw while laptop is sleeping, cracking speakers, despite playing around a lot with easy effects, ~12w power draw while watching youtube even though hardware video acceleration was running, touchpad problems. Spent countless hours searching online for the solutions. These small issues made me go back to windows, because when you add up a lot of small problems, it becomes a big problem. Few days ago I finished installing fedora gnome and customizing everything to my preferences on an elitebook 840 g9 and I must say, the improvements you guys did over the past few years for everything in the os has made me fully switch to linux. EVEN ADAPTIVE BRIGHTNESS WORKS OUT OF THE BOX SOMEHOW. Laptop uses 0.3w/h while in sleep mode, touchpad feels great, I don’t even need to use TLP anymore, because the power draw I get while watching youtube at 1080p is like 6w, got the speakers to sound even better than on Windows. I just wanted to say a big Thank You for making life easier for us Normies to make a switch! Thank you Thank you Thank you.