My laptop is also a Thinkpad. My experience is the opposite of yours. A plain install of either Fedora or Ubuntu leaves me with about 40% of the battery life on

My laptop is also a Thinkpad. My experience is the opposite of yours. A plain install of either Fedora or Ubuntu leaves me with about 40% of the battery life on Windows and a much busier fan. Tweaking gets me up to about 50% of the Windows battery. The synaptics trackpad in my laptop has driver support. Gnome gestures are enabled at install but the trackpad multi-finger swipe gestures are detected erratically and then often stop working until I logout and back in. I assume this is a software issue since rebooting the device is not required. The linux version of my browser doesn't have any gesture support.