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I get six to eight hours on my Thinkpad, running Arch Linux. This did not happen out of the box. I think I got like two hours of battery life before I began t

I get six to eight hours on my Thinkpad, running Arch Linux. This did not happen out of the box. I think I got like two hours of battery life before I began tuning parameters. As usual, the Arch wiki is an excellent resource even if you're running a different distro: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management

R0b0t1 4y ago
That's impressive. I've done the equivalent of tuning everything and still wound up with battery lifetime half of what it should be on Windows. There's also specific programs that are really bad. Edge used to add 2-4 hours extra battery life when using my Surface to read PDFs. If I used Firefox, it was shorter by a very noticeable amount.
- trelane 4y ago
  Does straight chrome have similar battery performance?
  - R0b0t1 4y ago
    Chrome was worse compared to MS's Edge, but Chrome based Edge seems worse than previous Edge. My testing isn't as exhaustive on the new Edge.
    - trelane 4y ago
      Huh. Wonder what the secret sauce is that apparently they can't release upstream. Open source FTW?