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This doesn't match my experience. My previous three laptops (two AMD Lenovo Thinkpads, one Intel Sony VAIO) had essentially the same battery life running Linux
by fsh 10mo ago
This doesn't match my experience. My previous three laptops (two AMD Lenovo Thinkpads, one Intel Sony VAIO) had essentially the same battery life running Linux as running Windows.
- martini333 10mo agoI think MacOS was implied...
- olyjohn 10mo agoHave you ever put MacOS on a PC laptop? Terrible hardware support and the worst battery life of any OS.
- functionmouse 10mo agoI used to hackintosh every laptop I could get my hands on that could do it, and always saw better battery life on OS X vs. Windows.
- sincerely 10mo agoI have an AMD thinkpad and get maybe 1/4 the battery life on Linux as I do when I boot inti Windows, did you have to do any tweaking to achieve that?
- fsh 10mo agoI typically install and enable tlp [1], but that's it. Some distros/DEs might have it out of the box, but on Arch I had to do it myself. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP
- cromka 10mo agoTLP, as mentioned. Also powertop for more in-depth view of what's happening on power consumption front.
- functionmouse 10mo agoYou're lucky, my thinkpad x13 gen 2 AMD gets 5 hours on modern Fedora vs. 9 or 10 on Windows.
- maxhille 10mo agoI also have an X13 Gen2 AMD. My idle power consumption is 2.5W to 4W depending on brightness. This ends up in 12h-15h (machine/battery ist 2y old I think). I think you can improve your power settings.
- gf000 10mo agoDoes that mean that Windows's battery life suck equally on these devices?