> My experience with my laptops is that windows will arbitrarily use 2-3x idle power draw while on battery for no apparent reason. Preinstalled bloatware is a

> My experience with my laptops is that windows will arbitrarily use 2-3x idle power draw while on battery for no apparent reason. Preinstalled bloatware is a massive problem for the average consumer. My partner is constantly surprised how well windows runs on the computers we have in our house - she’s so used to windows computers running all sorts of crap all the time. Our media box is just bare windows, but with all the obnoxious stuff disabled. (Like start menu news items, game bar, telemetry and all that). Most work computers running windows come with antivirus and rootkits like crowdstrike. And personal computers are usually even worse. I bought a brand new HP machine a few years ago which idled at about 15% cpu usage, even on battery. It got hot and ran itself flat in no time, just sitting there. Turns out it was running some bloatware hp audio noise cancellation plugin or something all the time, even when the microphone wasn’t in use. Modern computers are crazy fast. But there’s not much power left over if you install clown car of crap on them.