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does Linux actually enhance battery life? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by lemminger@thelemmy.club to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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I'm thinking about buying a small budget notebook with a touchscreen for university and running a resource friendly Linux distro on it to extend battery life (and also bc windows and Google suck ass). since I'm pretty much out of my depth here: does that make sense at all? are there noob friendly Linux distros available that support touch screen/ flippable notebooks. and if so, would it also make sense to buy a lenovo chromebook rather than a windows 11 based notebook? thanks in advance!

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] lemminger@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

There are various tools to optimize battery life on linux, most prominently:

laptop-mode-tools (https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools)
TLP (https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html)
auto-cpufreq (https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq)

But at the end of the day it depends on various factors, so it will be a tinkering process.

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