Accordingly, all Lenovo Legion devices on Linux should soon be able to enjoy correct power profiles, and perhaps by the time the patch is approved, there will be some models on the Extreme mode allow list as well. Linux is becoming a great place to game, especially for lower-end devices and handhelds that benefit from efficiency, as seen in our recent coverage of the ROG Xbox Ally X running Bazzite .
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ezst036 Gaming handhelds at the center of moving toward desktop Linux. Its a shame that this has to be independently fixed. All of these companies are stupid and blind to not see what is plainly happening right in front of them. The shift is on. Due in part to screen size but several other factors including raw performance in multiple categories, Linux just offers the better all-around experience to make it the compelling upgrade. On a handheld game machine of this type, Linux has exclusivity on being "the fun one" to use unlike Windows which is kludgy, buggy, and bothersome. Valve did this. Valve is slowly winning. Reply
Notton AFAIK, the software side of Lenovo handhelds has always been a step behind because Lenovo contracts the hardware+software out to a builder, and it's the builder's responsibility for updating the software. It's even worse on the Windows side because the Lenovo AMD drivers can be >6 months old without any sort of update that would fix issues on newer titles. Quite a few people resort to side loading from Asus's Ally drivers. Reply
excalibur1814 What we know: OEMs are lazy. What we WILL know: How naughty Valve can be. Will the world be better once Valve has their way? Probably not. Steam machines. Never forget. Reply
mitch074 Lenovo's support varies by range – cheap IdeaPad have lousy support with a lot of subcontracted parts, while higher priced IdeaPads and ThinkPads usually enjoy much better and more reactive support, including on Linux. Reply
mitch074 excalibur1814 said: What we know: OEMs are lazy. What we WILL know: How naughty Valve can be. Will the world be better once Valve has their way? Probably not. Steam machines. Never forget. Well, they did try – it didn't work, so they cut their losses and tried later with the Steam Deck. While it WOULD have been nice to get better support on Steam machines, the fact that they didn't bury its hardware support behind binary blobs and instead chose to pay well-known open source developers and integrate into existing projects (instead of dirty forks with unreadable history, like Apple) while maintaining their own forks with proper open source licenses is, to me, worth some praise. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/lenovo-legion-devices-running-linux-set-to-get-new-extreme-mode-that-fixes-previously-broken-power-limits-only-approved-devices-will-be-able-to-run-the-maximum-performance-mode#main
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