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I finally dropped Windows 10 from my HP Omen laptop a couple of months ago and installed Linux (had to have it to run Visual Studio until recently). The machin
by kwhitefoot 5y ago
I finally dropped Windows 10 from my HP Omen laptop a couple of months ago and installed Linux (had to have it to run Visual Studio until recently). The machine now runs cold when in the past it was distinctly warm all the time even when I had not been using it for hours.
I suspect that dropping Windows altogether has cut the consumption of his laptop by more than half.
- fomine3 5y agoYou just disabled Nvidia dGPU?
- kwhitefoot 5y agoI never do any graphics intensive stuff so I have no idea. But perhaps that is what happened. But that really just makes it even plainer that Windows is very inefficient. Why would enabling the GPU cause high power usage when the machine has been sitting idle for hours with the screen off?