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I think you will be disappointed by battery life. It is almost always worst on Linux than Windows. Sometimes much worse. Mine get 90-120 minutes. Yeah in 2025. Apple just released a MacBook with 24 hours of battery life.
Doesn't matter too much to me because I almost always have it plugged in, but yeah.
Interesting, I put linux on my work laptop and I always get hours more out of it than my colleagues using windows. And I'm the type of guy having 200 tabs open and carrying extra peripherals around which probably also take some power.
Anyway ymmv of course
Yeah I guess it probably depends if you get lucky and have a laptop that happens to have a load of effort put into power management optimisation put in by some random Linux dev. It would be really helpful if there were benchmarks for this stuff. Super tedious and expensive to do though I guess. Maybe we could crowd source it somehow.
hmmm. So you'd recommend just working with windows 11 then? cuz basically battery life is what's most important to me. can't afford new stuff, especially not a MacBook.
There are various tools to optimize battery life on linux, most prominently:
But at the end of the day it depends on various factors, so it will be a tinkering process.
Yeah. If you pay a few dollars for a product key from one of those grey market sites (legally dubious but there's no danger to you) you can get Windows 11 IoT LTSC which is a version of Windows without all the crap that people complain about.
I've been running that on my desktop for a while and the only problem I ran into was that Winget doesn't work by default and it is quite a pain to get working (I did manage in the end but it involved downloading some core windows file from a random windows help website which isn't ideal).
The only reason I needed it is because OCaml is only distributed on Windows with Winget. I think the Windows Store also probably doesn't work (never tried) but that's a bonus. Same for the Windows game bar, whatever that crap is. (Steam and games themselves work fine.)
Other than that it's rock solid and a nice improvement over Windows 10. It can even install printers quickly and reliably which I thought I would never see in my lifetime (Linux still can't).
thank you! your reply sent me down another rabbit hole and gave me something to think about.