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I installed Linux on my company Mac and it feels like my battery charge lasts less long
by supremesaboteur 9y ago
I installed Linux on my company Mac and it feels like my battery charge lasts less long
- Kenji 9y agoCan confirm. Also, Windows actually saves batteries compared to a vanilla Ubuntu install. I don't know why but Linux GUI is extremely wasteful for some reason.
- amarant 9y agoIt's not the GUI, power management tools in Linux are somewhat behind the curve. Or so I'm told anyway
- 8draco8 9y agoLinux on mac will always have shorter battery live. That's mostly because of Apple proprietary code required for power management.
- beerbaron23 9y agoI will say it's mostly due to the amount of effort creating power-saving features in OSX that are not present in other OS's. It's quite interesting all the little things they do to prolong the battery. I have Fedora 25 with TLP, it operates fine, there is nothing proprietary blocking it (but you do need TLP, install it asap to get any batt life out of Linux) on my macbook and I can almost reach 5 1/2 hours web browsing (Opera with battery saver). On OSX I can easily obtain 9 hours doing similar work. This is all on a 6 year old battery too.