Linux is indeed better about this, I'm more mentioning it as a general power-saving technique. Windows has something equivalent to schedulers with its "power p

Linux is indeed better about this, I'm more mentioning it as a general power-saving technique. Windows has something equivalent to schedulers with its "power plan" options, and comes on "balanced" by default; some performance cost for better battery. Linux is better at fewer services, but takes more work to optimize for particular hardware (especially as many drivers don't have first-party linux support, and some times don't use all power-saving features). Often it takes some tweaking to get this working at the same level. It has gotten better with the hard work of lots of people (in that it's actually possible with tweaking now where it wasn't at all before), but there's still some room to improve. Of course, more mfgs could also support linux; that would make it much easier. Or better yet, open-source the driver so it can get better.