I’ve officially been using Fedora for a month on Tachyon and I have enough changes made that I think it’s time for me to do a progress post.
At a glance, I’m using:
- Alacritty as my terminal emulator.
- Bash as my shell.
- Starship for my prompt.
- Tmux as default.
- Dunst for desktop notifications.
- i3 as my WM.
- Picom as my compositor.
- Rofi as my app/script launcher.
- Polybar as my bar.
- Catppuccin Mocha as my theme for everything.
- I use both NVIM and VSCode for my editors.
- auto-cpufreq to increase my battery life. The details of what I’m using right now can be found in my dotfiles repo.
Things I needed to address:
- Setting up “battery” and “power” modes using a script to change things like keyboard brightness, screen brightness, refresh rate, and GPU mode.
- Pulseaudio as an audio solution instead of pipewire (issues with WH-1000XM4’s).
- Create desktop entries for appimages in order for them to show up in Rofi (ex. Obsidian).
Things I’ve noticed:
- Battery Life: I was expecting it to be poor, but as it turns out, it isn’t much worse than Windows. With the battery starting at 80%, I can get around 7.5-8 hours of regular use (basically anything except watching videos) where on Windows I could have gotten 8-9.
- Videos drain the battery almost twice as fast. I assume this is because of videos codecs, but at the moment I’m not bothered enough to fix it.