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Can anyone comment on how battery life compares when running Linux on M1/M2? (I haven't been a mac person in many many years but I do love the Air and would con
by temp0826 3y ago
Can anyone comment on how battery life compares when running Linux on M1/M2? (I haven't been a mac person in many many years but I do love the Air and would consider getting one now that I wouldn't have to use their os)
- zamadatix 3y agoIt's difficult to compare as things like whether your keyboard backlight were on the whole time start to have significant impacts in the runtime for more efficient machines and with certain things like hardware video decoding not being implemented watching high res videos compounds with the previous note while another use case may not. For me on my typical day I'd say something around 75% the time I get on macOS though. Can make it about 10 hours full to empty.
- deaddodo 3y agoI don't even know if that's true. I have an AMD laptop that dual-boots Fedora KDE and Windows 11. When I watch videos (local files) on both, I can get about the same battery life. But Linux, in general, is much worse with OpenGL/Vulkan applications (games, primarily). With Chrome, Windows is slightly better; with Firefox, Linux is significantly better. But Chrome on Windows is generally "best". Etc. So it's going to be application specific as much as small things like hardware configuration differences in each OS (which can be tailored to match).