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In my experience, most linux distro's battery management doesn't even match windows xp out of the box (no clear way to tune it). It is the only thing that is st
by furtivefelon 17y ago
In my experience, most linux distro's battery management doesn't even match windows xp out of the box (no clear way to tune it). It is the only thing that is stopping me from transitioning to linux full time.
- cdavid 17y agoLooking at the battery management on the 10.04 beta, the options seem very similar to the ones on my mac book. What do feel is missing ?
- AngryParsley 17y agoIt's not the options, it's the actual power management. I have a netbook with XP and Lucid beta. The battery lasts 6 hours on XP and only 4:30 on Lucid. Both OSes are set to dim the screen and spin down the hard disk on battery power. The fan also comes on a lot more often when I'm running Lucid.
- papachito 17y agoThe opposite happens here, when I switch from Lucid to Vista. Did you try with a 10 year old version of linux? I think XP is 10 years old now.
- yungchin 17y agoThat's a good point. From personal experience, I strongly suspect this is mostly due to lack of power-management in the GPU drivers. In fact, on machines with Intel integrated GPUs I've seen battery life as good as on Windows.