I know for me, at least with gnome, toggling between performance, balanced, and battery saver modes dramatically changes my battery life on Ubuntu, so I have to toggle it manually to not drain my battery life if it’s mostly sitting there. I don’t know if Mint is the same, but just throwing out the “obvious” for anyone else running Linux on a laptop.
Nugget@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I tried Linux Mint on my old XPS laptop and the battery life is, unfortunately, a nonstarter for me. It lasts about 2 hours running Linux versus up to six on Windows (thanks to battery settings). It also doesn’t hibernate properly. I wish it had worked for me
CMahaff@lemmy.world 1 month ago
davetansley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For some reason, Mint doesn’t provide access to the power profiles out of the box… no idea why. I just install a Cinnamon applet called “Power Profiles” and it gives me the same systray switcher as Fedora.
Fresh install of Mint was giving me about 2 hours battery life. By switching to Power Saver profile, I can get up to about 6-8 hours. I mostly only need to go to Balanced or Performance when gaming.
PanArab@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s most likely a driver issue. I don’t know if this is something that’s easily fixed. Linux is better on open hardware.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d try fedora or pop os. I never really liked mint personally
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It may be worth doing more distro hoping. It sometimes takes a few to get it right for your needs/use case.
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Zorin is another sexy option.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s the known good battery management distro? If there isn’t one, that seems like something that should be an area of focus.
kopasz7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I heard even though Pop os is ubuntu based, they use different power management. I’m mainly a desktop user so I can’t quantitativly comment on battery life.
moontorchy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was recently surprised by Debian 12. Tried it on my Dell laptop and getting better battery life than Pop!_os. Try this installer which makes life so much easier :)
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I use fedora with auto-cpufreq and it gives battery life that lines up with reviews of the device