I’ve uses linux for the last 5 years switching to windows time to time. And consistently I have had less power consumption in linux than in windows.
I usually install linux mint on my laptop.
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SuspiciousPumpkin421@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Has power management for laptops gotten any better in the last couple of years on desktop Linux? I distro hopped for a year 3ish years ago but just didn’t like the fairly significant reduction in battery life.
daniskarma@lemmy.world 10 months ago
whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This tracks. I have recently gone back to running a Windows desktop machine for gaming, and now I have to actually shut it off because:
a) that fucking thing never stays asleep. Clean install with nothing other than Steam and a couple of games, sleep settings mean nothing. Just wakes up, stays awake forever.
b) Fortunately I have an enterprise license key so I don’t get as much random bullshit, but every update there is some new fucking thing I don’t want.My machine is a desktop, but I can’t image how this works well on laptops.
vin@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Debian and Ubuntu works great on my ThinkPad. Getting better battery life in fact coz it sleeps properly compared to windows.
mlg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
afaik yes, depends on distro and selected DE.
XFCE is solid, GNOME (ew lol) is solid, KDE last I checked was also solid
There is a slight pain with Fedora (and others) that use zswap/zram which disables hibernation. You can make a setup that swapsoff the memory properly so the laptop can hibernate instead of sleep, its just annoying-that its not a default feature or very easy to set up with a switch.
HERRAX@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I’ve been getting fairly good battery life on arch and popOS on my laptop. Think it depends a bit on what laptop you’ve got as well. If I were to guess I’d say my current pop install gets ~10% less battery life than on windows, while I was probably even closer than that on arch after a bit of tinkering.
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months ago
There still are some problems, unfortunately.
Not a world of difference, but my laptop holds ~15% less when running Debian over Windows.