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Personal experience: my laptop (older Dell) has gotten so much quieter and cooler since switching over to Linux from Windows. I don't really have anything agai

Personal experience: my laptop (older Dell) has gotten so much quieter and cooler since switching over to Linux from Windows. I don't really have anything against Windows, and their WSL2 is pretty great and allowed me to learn the bash command line and run Linux programs in that environment, but the fans were always humming and telemetry was nonstop and massive updates were nonstop (granted I signed up for the Insider Ring thing so perhaps it's not surprising). I actually wonder if I had some crypto-mining malware running or something like that. After wiping the drive, flashing the BIOS and doing a Debian install my computer is almost always cool and quiet and I don't use it any more or less than I did before. Also while code bloat seems endemic in web development, the embedded world still relies on compact efficient code written in languages like C, so a lot of people are still learning to program in that style, which is a good thing.

Micoloth 4y ago
Another data point: for me, it’s the complete opposite. On my new acer laptop with dual boot, windows runs nicely and quietely does what I tell it to, except for some random unwarranted Cortana stuff once in a while. On the other hand, Ubuntu is completely unusable due to noise of the fans that spin up like crazy for the most trivial of operations.
- robcohen 4y ago
  What model laptop is it? Is the battery management on performance or battery saving? This used to be a frequent problem in the 2000s with Linux but I thought it was largely fixed except on the very newest laptops (takes 3-6 months for kinks to be worked out in my experience after a laptops release).
- alar44 4y ago
  My guess is that your GPU is rendering everything. Install the proprietary drivers and enable hybrid graphics mode in the BIOS. Mine was the same way. Nice and quiet now and battery life is nearly twice as good.
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Micoloth 4y ago

Another data point: for me, it’s the complete opposite. On my new acer laptop with dual boot, windows runs nicely and quietely does what I tell it to, except for some random unwarranted Cortana stuff once in a while. On the other hand, Ubuntu is completely unusable due to noise of the fans that spin up like crazy for the most trivial of operations.

robcohen 4y ago
What model laptop is it? Is the battery management on performance or battery saving? This used to be a frequent problem in the 2000s with Linux but I thought it was largely fixed except on the very newest laptops (takes 3-6 months for kinks to be worked out in my experience after a laptops release).
alar44 4y ago
My guess is that your GPU is rendering everything. Install the proprietary drivers and enable hybrid graphics mode in the BIOS. Mine was the same way. Nice and quiet now and battery life is nearly twice as good.

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