An immutable distro would be ideal for this kind of thing. ChromeOS (an immutable distro example) can be centrally managed, but the caveat with ChromeOS in particular is that it’s management can only go through Google via their enterprise Google Workspace suite.
But as a concept, this shows that it’s doable.
TL;DR - Because people are stupid.
One of my coworkers (older guy) tends to click on things without thinking. He’s been through multiple cyber security training courses, and has even been written up for opening multiple obvious phishing emails.
People like that are why company-owned laptops are locked down with group policy and other security measures.
Systemd is fine. This sounds like an old sysadmin who refuses to learn because “new thing bad” with zero logic to back it up.
Cinnamon by and far.
I’ve used so many distros and DEs I don’t even know where to begin, but Cinnamon got me hooked for the long run. It’s legitimately the most polished and “ready to run” DE I’ve ever used, yet still allowing for far more customization than Windows ever offered.
That thread was a godsend. Turning off tcpkeepalive was the other one that I couldn’t remember, but that seemed to help out as well.
My wife has had multiple MacBooks over the years (I set up her old 2009-era A1278 with Linux Mint for the kids to do homework), and after I “fixed” it and talked about the longer wake-up process, she told me that’s what she was used to already and the “super fast wake up” was a very new thing for her when she bought it. So no complaints from her, and the battery performs better. Win/win.
My Thinkpad T14 running Linux Mint (LMDE) gets better battery life on “Suspend” than that damn MBP does when hibernated. It’s the 2017 A1706, too - out of ALL the variants it had to be that one 😂
I mean, this is about privacy, is it not? It’s pretty well-known by now that Windows mines your data.
It depends how much shit is blocked on the network at the user level.
So here’s the thing - if you can think of it, I’ve already tried it 😅 I spent a week and a half sifting through countless forum posts on Apple’s own support center, Macrumors, reddit, and a host of other forums.
The “Wake for network access” setting was the first thing I disabled after I wiped and reinstalled the OS. Among a number of other settings, including “Power Nap”. Still got the fucking “EC.DarkPME (Maintenance)” process firing off every ~45 seconds, no matter what I did, causing excessive insomnia and draining the battery within 12 hours.
What I ended up doing was using a little tool called “FluTooth” to automatically disable wifi/Bluetooth on sleep (the built-in OS settings did fuck-all), set hibernationmode to 25, and a few other tweaks with pmset that currently escape me (edit: disabled networkoversleep, womp, ttyskeepawake, powernap - which was still set to 1 even with the setting in System Settings was disabled 🤨), and a couple others I can’t remember as it’s not here in front of me).
I put several full charge cycles on the brand new battery before it finally calmed the fuck down.
As someone who just had to bandaid an unexplained battery draw on his wife’s MacBook - no, Mac OS no longer “just works”. Apple buries some of the most basic settings inside a command line-only tool called pmset, and even then those can be arbitrarily overridden by other processes.
And even after a fresh reinstall and new battery, it still drains the battery faster in hibernation mode than my Thinkpad T14 G1 running LMDE does while sleeping. Yeah, that was a fun discovery.
That Thinkpad is by far one of my most dependable machines.
And did you verify this before posting?
Looks fine to me! ¯\(°_o)/¯
Oh it does. I have it on an old MacBook. I’ve been meaning to replace it with LMDE.
Unfortunately my email is also linked to a lot of court and custody stuff… I’d have to submit all new paperwork to my lawyer and the courts. Oi…
I love working in the terminal, I usually have a window open for it any time I’m working on a Linux machine. The only thing I don’t like about it is people who tell you commands to run for troubleshooting and refuse to elaborate on what those commands actually do. That and sed… That shit is black fucking magic.
I much prefer LMDE over any Ubuntu-based distro. I don’t like the way Canonical has been going for a while now, and dealing with Ubuntu PPAs and other weird Ubuntu shit just doesn’t work with me anymore. Gimme a repo to put into /etc/apt/sources.list and leave it at that.
I can’t imagine just…shutting down my email. It’s 20 years old and is integrated into a lot of my life.
I suppose I should look into other options.
Hush you 😅
My wife’s 2017-era MacBook Pro (with soldered SSD and RAM 🙄) has a mystery battery drain that’ll kill it within 12 hours, even on sleep mode. And I just installed a new battery in it… What an absolute pain in the ass - both the battery and the mystery sleep mode draw. Really loving Apple’s walled garden about now… /s
You can install KDE on Mint.
You’re not wrong; I was just being hyperbolic.