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Welp, no sooner did I come to the conclusion that charging was the issue than I found this reply to a similar question on Quora:...

Well guys, I hate to do this, but I retract saying Pop!_OS was the solution. It definitely isn't.

I did find the reason this laptop is throttling though.

It's because it's charging. :KS
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Okay, hold the phone. I created a post on the Lenovo forums, and someone told me to switch to Pop!_OS.
I though they were just blowing smoke, but DUDE, Pop launches the Firefox window in under one...

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, rebooted, and let everything settle. The Firefox window still takes 8-9 seconds to appear, and the home page isn't loaded until 14-15 seconds.
No notable...

Please check this out:
VIDEO - Windows launching Firefox faster than Kubuntu https://youtu.be/PAy0bOF5H1o

Okay, I went ahead and installed Windows in order to install the BIOS/UEFI update, but...

They are both running Kubuntu 21.04 right now. They are both fairly fresh installs, and they have the exact same set of apps.
This is an issue I've been facing for months. The Lenovo is...

I have now disabled all mitigations, but this laptop is still considerably slower than one with lower specs.
My HP with lower specs is still roughly twice as fast at everything, from booting up to...

Mine is a Flex 3 1570 "80JM"
It has an Nvidia card.

Not sure when this got changed, but my discrete GPU was disabled in BIOS.
I've got the 470 driver installed now, but the laptop is still...

Being totally honest - despite being a Linux user for 12 years, and actually ditching Windows entirely in 2018, I'm still just an end-user. I don't know what to do with that output. I have...

Looks like there's a BIOS/UEFI update for the Lenovo Flex 1570 available on their website, but it's in EXE format. The instructions say to install it through Windows....
I'm thinking that running...

I was watching a YouTube video today where a guy installed Manjaro on a 2012 MacBook Pro, and the exact second he clicked the Firefox icon, the application window was open. For me, when I click...

bradley@Flex-3-1570:~$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: ...

Thank you everyone for the suggestions. Unfortunately I am about to jump on a plane, and I'm not going to take the Lenovo with me on this trip, since I won't have any time to mess with it. I'll dig...

I own two laptops, but one of them has much nicer hardware (bigger screen, touch screen, 10-key, backlit keys, etc).
Unfortunately, my "nicer" laptop is unbearably slow, even though it supposedly...

TL;DR - I think everything is working now.

Full story, in case anyone else runs into this:



This was actually a brand new motherboard & CPU, but an SSD from the previous machine. I...

If you're not running a DE, this might not be everything you need, but it may help. What are the permissions for your shared folders on the server? You can find out by running:

ls -l...

I'm just a stupid user, so I can't help with your logs, but did you purge every mention of Nvidia on your system via the terminal?
I had a similar situation happen to me. I was getting...

I had something like this problem once. Not sure if this'll help. I had two issues:
1. I had an 1/8" cable plugged into the wrong jack.

I thought I was plugged into Front LR, but it turns out...

About once out of every five times that I boot my PC, I get an error right after BIOS that says something to the effect of "Failed to execute; EFI\(a long string of characters)\vmlinuz.efi not found"...

No. Usually sitting in the mid-thirties.



How would I test that?



If I'm on an UEFI system, and I create a bootable ISO, can I still run memtest86 from that?

I don't quite remember. I'll check into it. Looks like the driver there is a different version than I am using, but I did notice that OBS won't record on this latest driver. Perhaps it's causing...

My desktop is a gaming HTPC hooked up to a projector. (Hence me mentioning a wireless Xbox 360 controller earilier) Fun stuff!
My laptop is an over-powered meme machine.
Both Kubuntu 18.04.

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Although I've been using Linux for ten years, I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know how to check the system log files. Would I just cat /var/log/syslog | grep (the date that it happened)? -or...

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me which logs I should be checking out. My system has been infrequently freezing. All of a sudden the display freezes and the mouse won't move. The only solution is...

Have you used Bluetooth for anything else on your laptop to ensure it's working under Ubuntu?
Have you tried to connect your headphones via Bluetooth to any other computer to make sure your...