Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu - follow-up: why is Debian power consumption so much higher?

2022-12-19 Thread songbird
B.M. wrote: ... > Any ideas what I could do to get Debian to be as power efficient as Ubuntu= > ? aside from what other people have already said, if there are any devices that you are not going to use that you can turn off in the bios that might help further (you mention bluetooth but perhaps

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu - follow-up: why is Debian power consumption so much higher?

2022-12-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:54 AM B.M. wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a brand new Dell Precision 3570 Laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre- > installed. After figuring out recovery partition and tools, I installed > Debian > Testing (Bookworm) side-by-side (since using a live medium doesn't really > work >

Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu - follow-up: why is Debian power consumption so much higher?

2022-12-19 Thread B.M.
Hi, I've got a brand new Dell Precision 3570 Laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre- installed. After figuring out recovery partition and tools, I installed Debian Testing (Bookworm) side-by-side (since using a live medium doesn't really work because it's based on Stable which isn't supporting the

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-12-17 Thread Eric S Fraga
I'm in a similar position for a Dell workstation at work. I decided to keep it as it came, with ubuntu 20.04. Some annoying niggles/differences compared with Debian which I use on all of my other systems but as this system acts as a server mostly, they are not particularly worrying. It's

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-12-16 Thread B.M.
On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 18:12 +0100, B.M. wrote: > Hi, > > The new laptop just arrived and I had a first look what the people > did > at Dell or Canonical: > > After switching it on the first time, I was asked to enter > / configure > WLAN, username, password, hostname, keyboard layout, time zone.

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-12-16 Thread B.M.
Hi, The new laptop just arrived and I had a first look what the people did at Dell or Canonical: After switching it on the first time, I was asked to enter / configure WLAN, username, password, hostname, keyboard layout, time zone. It also let me create a recovery USB stick. After a reboot I now

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:04:33 +0100 "B.M." wrote: > I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of > weeks. Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu > 20.04 LTS pre- installed instead of paying for an never used Win 11 > :-) > > Since all our other

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:04:33AM +0100, B.M. wrote: > Hi, > Hi Bernd, > I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of weeks. > Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre- > installed instead of paying for an never used Win 11 :-) > >

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Linux-Fan
B.M. writes: I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of weeks. Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre- [...] the machine should work well - but who knows? How would you proceed? [...] b) replace Ubuntu by Debian, fiddling

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi, B.M. wrote: > Since all our other computers are happily running Debian, I'd like to replace > this Ubuntu by Debian Testing (later Bookworm). I've already decided to run it > on a single btrfs partition and learn something about subvolumes... I assume > the machine should work well - but who

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/28/22 11:04, B.M. wrote: Hi, I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of weeks. Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre- installed instead of paying for an never used Win 11 :-) Since all our other computers are happily running

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread hede
Am 28.11.2022 10:04, schrieb B.M.: Hi, I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop [...] How would you proceed? [...] e) other... Thank you for your ideas. Maybe as an option: If there are special drivers needed, patches to the kernel, etc., you can run Debian on the Ubuntu kernel if

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Bret Busby
On 28/11/2022 17:04, B.M. wrote: Hi, I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of weeks. Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre- installed instead of paying for an never used Win 11 :-) Since all our other computers are happily

Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread B.M.
Hi, I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of weeks. Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre- installed instead of paying for an never used Win 11 :-) Since all our other computers are happily running Debian, I'd like to replace this