horrorslice

I try to choose a distro that looks aesthetically pleasing out of the box so I don't have to do any of that.

Much appreciated. I'll give it another shot maybe tonight and throw some XFCE on here.

I'm using an old Dell XPS 13. It's 10ish years old. That could be part of the problem. I'm currently using chromeOS flex on it. It's fairly usable, but I don't have audio. I really only use it rarely and for things like d&d.

I know the Macbook battery life is because it's brand new, but it's still impressive to me that she rarely has to charge it.

Whenever I try Linux on my laptops, I always seem to have issues with sleep/resume from closing the lid.

While my wife's Macbooks battery lasts for like 18 hours.

I wonder that myself. Someone didn't double check the QR code before sending it into production... but you'd think a huge company like Mattel would have some SOPs for this kind thing.