Experience with running Fedora Linux on a Thinkpad P14s Gen 5

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I have recently acquired a Lenovo Thinkpad P14s Gen 5. As of the time of writing – summer of ‘24 – these machines are brand new, and so is their architecture: Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) with a dedicated NVIDIA GPU. Here I report my experience with running Linux with the KDE Plasma desktop on this machine.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.bovender.de/posts/2024/08/experience-with-running-fedora-linux-on-a-thinkpad-p14s-gen-5
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Another thing you can try to enhance battery life - if you don’t need the dGPU while on the go, get envycontrol and switch to integrated mode. I’ve got a P14s G5 w/ RTX 500 ada - not currently running Fedora (on a Debian variant) - but when I was on Fedora, I have to say I got much better battery life than the distro I’m using now (unfortunately the VPN software I need isn’t playing nice with Fedora right now :frowning: )

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Cool, did not know about this. Will try this out :slight_smile:

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btw, same here – I have to use the HTML5/browser version of a remote desktop software that I am forced to use… Right now on F44.