I am writing this report about my (nice) experience adding a second SSD (an NVMe, 1 Tb) to my LG GRAM 16, my main laptop that I’ve enjoyed for two years. DISCLAIMER: This is NOT meant to be a tutorial; it’s just a report. You will do that at your own risk if you perform […]
I had already blogged on how to limit battery charge on LG Gram in Linux. In that post, you had to manually set the threshold “80” in the file “/sys/devices/platform/lg-laptop/battery_care_limit”. With TLP, the procedure is easier and more automatic. First, you must install tlp (remember that tlp conflicts with power-profiles-daemon, so you have to disable […]
I want to share some benchmarks for building an Eclipse project with Maven/Tycho. I built the project on Linux, Windows, and macOS (in particular, on my Mac Air M1 2020). I stressed that the macOS environment is an M1, the new Arm-based chip from Apple, which is said to be quite efficient and performant. However, […]
I’ve been using this laptop for some months now (see my other posts). In Windows, you can easily set the battery charge limit to 80% using the LG Gram control center. In Linux, I did not find any specific configuration in any system settings in any DE (not even in KDE Plasma, where, for some […]
I recently bought an LG GRAM 16 and I really enjoy that (I’ll blog about that in the near future, hopefully). I had no problems installing Linux, nor with Manjaro Gnome (Phavo) neither with Kubuntu. However, in Manjaro Gnome I soon started to note some lags, especially with the touchpad and some repainting issues. I […]