I’m a bit late but mid range Dimensity chips are generally more power efficient than last gen Snapdragons (888, 8 Gen 1) which means the battery should last longer - not just for a single charge but for overall battery health, as you don’t need to charge it as often
Webcam on Intel may not work due to drivers that Intel hasn’t written/upstreamed for IPU6 cameras. Looks like it’s in the work now… for certain sensors. Intel has taken literal years to get anything out. the Core Ultra 200 series is out but drivers for these webcams which have in use since Tiger lake (almost half a decade ago!!) still don’t work.
“Greg KH Recommends Avoiding Alder Lake Laptops” https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-No-ADL-Webcam-Laptop
Nor the integrated cameras or the IR camera worked out of the box on my laptop. Some hacks could be done to make it work but it breaks after the system is updated. It never worked when I needed it and image quality was limited to 720p and worse. From what I understand, current methods to get the camera to work use minimal software processing to process the images, instead of the dedicated silicon.
Not all Intel laptops use IPU6. I know some HPs do not.
Haven’t had many issues with the Intel AX211. Very rarely, the wifi settings will disappear after my laptop suspends and a reboot is needed.
The battery capacity also doesn’t seem very big, I’m not sure how efficient the AMD CPU is but I’d be worried that Intel would deliver less battery life.
GPU performance might also be better on AMD? (haven’t checked).
In addition to the other reply, it helps align the tx/rx coils for higher efficiency
I don’t think I have enough knowledge to solve this or say anything for certain, but I wonder if the power button is treated as an external keyboard and is getting ignored in tablet mode?
Not recommending against RustDesk - it is a very cool project - but regarding the “Why?”, you could use a VPN or something like Tailscale which has MagicDNS that’ll resolve hostnames of computers to their local IP address. You can use this with GNOME’s RDP server to remote in from another device pretty easily.
PairDrop(dot)net is a fork with a bit more features
Strange. The default keyboard works wonders for me but doesn’t automatically pop up. Are you able to swipe from the bottom edge of the display to make it pop up?
Just use Waydroid instead: https://waydro.id, much lower overhead, however you need to mess with ARM emulation. For installing Google Apps and Device not Play certified: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script
More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid
Dell laptops have mostly just worked on Linux quite well, but you may run into issues with the camera, however this hack(?) has worked for me: https://github.com/stefanpartheym/archlinux-ipu6-webcam.
I believe Dell has a catch for the camera saying that it may use more CPU when in use. Whilst the laptop is Ubuntu Certified, the camera only works if you select the Ubuntu option instead of Windows, and use the install they give you.
Some other nice things to have:
I’ve used an Acer Spin 5 and Dell Latitude 7440 with Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora and NixOS over the years without many issues.
I’ve heard that the x360 laptop you have may be a little troublesome but you can always test things out on a live Linux USB.
Ofc, there are a few x360 laptops so it might not apply, I’d encourage you to just give it a go with a live USB.
For using your stylus for note taking, I’d recommend trying Xournal++ and/or Rnote