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Laptop battery life suffers greatly on Linux. When their Google Chrome bootloader is out of battery all day, it matters which OS they installed.
by odie5533 9mo ago
Laptop battery life suffers greatly on Linux. When their Google Chrome bootloader is out of battery all day, it matters which OS they installed.
- fuzzy2 9mo agoDoesn't matter though. Every single one of these "casual" users I know has a terribly outdated device with a broken battery that doesn't even charge anymore. And I agree: if it works, why replace it?
- tapoxi 9mo agoThis doesn't make much sense, ChromeOS is itself Linux, and those are prime "computers for parents" machines.
- johnny22 9mo agonot the same thing at all. Different userspace that may or may not be that efficient at power, as well as well tested power management in the kernel for specific devices.
- evilduck 9mo agoPeople who care deeply about unplugged battery life aren't on Windows to begin with.
- flexagoon 9mo agoLaptop battery is mostly an issue of inefficient CPUs nowadays. I don't know about other distros, but at least Fedora's default power saving settings give a battery life very much comparable to Windows. Which is obviously still nothing compared to macbooks or even snapdragon laptops.