Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
Hello Penguins,
I'm looking for distro advice. For the last 4-5years I have rocked this laptop, MSI PS63 Modern RC. I have tried Debian, Garuda, Ubuntu, and now currently rocking Tumbleweed. Although I am statisfied with the current choice of distro, my laptop still overheats like crazy whenever its preasured even slightly, for example: doing updates, being on zoom for uni, or ofc low-end gaming.
I realise the laptop is old, but i really want it to last half a year longer before i start working for a company, which then will replace my need for having a personal laptop.
So, should I try a more lightweight distro or do you think the problem lies elsewhere? I've had the same issue across all other distros i've tried. I've looked at trying Alpine and MicroOS from openSUSE.
Appriciate any pointers!
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In my experience with them, MSI laptops tend to run quite hot in general, your OS probably isn't going to fix it. You can try one of those laptop cooling plates, basically a mesh platform with fans, ensuring cool air is always available to the laptop intakes, but it isn't exactly a perfect solution.
Really it just needs more cooling capacity - they seem to cut razor close to the amount needed in their designs so when eventually cooling becomes less efficient either through fans getting tired/clogged or thermal paste/pads breaking down, it will not keep up.
Yeah it's a rather thin laptop, but I will open it up and get some cooling paste on it 👍