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With the musl/busybox/OpenRC stack, Alpine is top notch when it comes to battery use. Just by switching from Debian to Alpine i doubled the battery lifetime on
by blueflow 2y ago
With the musl/busybox/OpenRC stack, Alpine is top notch when it comes to battery use. Just by switching from Debian to Alpine i doubled the battery lifetime on my Acer A114 from 8 to 20 hours. This includes moderate use.
"Can leave my charger at home" moment for me.
- ruthmarx 2y agoProbably not a musl thing so much as a way less crap running in the background thing.
- zx8080 2y agoSystemd daemons and subsystems?
- RealStickman_ 2y agoCould probably get similar improvements by using any distro with less "batteries included" than Debian. Though I'm not aware of any except Alpine which offer stable versions.
- jlokier 2y agoMy Debian 12 VM has been up for 4 days, and Xorg clocked 5 hours of CPU activity in that time, but systemd clocked only 9.5 seconds, and its subsystems each less than that. So I doubt if systemd and its subsystems are using much energy. It doesn't seem likely to explain 20 vs 8 hours battery.
- blueflow 2y agoIts less the cpu usage, but more the frequency of wakeups.