I’ve not had this issue around batteries? Is there specific hardware you can give as an example? For me laptop batteries last longer and I’ve replaced Windows on a random laptop, not researched anything hardware wise.
Note, Windows has a “trick” of defaulting to “balanced” mode on Laptop installs (even when plugged in I’ve found), which basically means your hardware is throttled unless you turn it off but this trick does make the battery seem to last for ages. You’re actually not using the rest of your hardware at full potential in this situation. Many users seem to be unaware of their power profile setting in Windows. Meanwhile, in my experience Linux installs tends to default to a performance power profile unless you specifically change it yourself (for example balanced or battery saver while unplugged etc) but again this may depend on your distro’s default settings.
In KDE the power profiles are in the Settings > Power Management section and in the task tray. Same will exist on Gnome, and I know it exists on XFCE as I’ve used it’s power profiles before too.
Any AMD system that’s pretty new gets WAY worse battery life on Linux. AMD does some insane optimizations for windows. But it takes a few years before they make their way to Linux.
I think in the last 6 months there’s been some good work on this. But I have a similar AMD 6000 series system to them and I get almost twice the battery life on Linux.
Note, Windows has a “trick” of defaulting to “balanced” mode
That’s probably what most people want on a laptop on battery. Why would I want my CPU running full tilt for nothing? That’d largely why AMDs battery life on Linux is so bad.
i’m aware that i can get longer battery life if i experiment with the power settings or try different power utilities (ie powertop), but i’ve learned from experience that the battery life will never be the same as it is using windows.
i’ve also learned from experience that only open source firmware projects like (ie coreboot) can give you the battery performance that can rival windows and mac and i got to enjoy that by buying linux-first laptops vendors with open source firmware on it like system76, tuxedo, etc.
the most irritating thing about the laptop i have now is that it will charge from 5% to 80% in 50 minutes when it’s running windows; but it takes almost 2 hours to do the same thing running fedora so i will probably buy from system76 again next time i need a new laptop. lol
I’ve not had this issue around batteries? Is there specific hardware you can give as an example? For me laptop batteries last longer and I’ve replaced Windows on a random laptop, not researched anything hardware wise.
Note, Windows has a “trick” of defaulting to “balanced” mode on Laptop installs (even when plugged in I’ve found), which basically means your hardware is throttled unless you turn it off but this trick does make the battery seem to last for ages. You’re actually not using the rest of your hardware at full potential in this situation. Many users seem to be unaware of their power profile setting in Windows. Meanwhile, in my experience Linux installs tends to default to a performance power profile unless you specifically change it yourself (for example balanced or battery saver while unplugged etc) but again this may depend on your distro’s default settings.
In KDE the power profiles are in the Settings > Power Management section and in the task tray. Same will exist on Gnome, and I know it exists on XFCE as I’ve used it’s power profiles before too.
Any AMD system that’s pretty new gets WAY worse battery life on Linux. AMD does some insane optimizations for windows. But it takes a few years before they make their way to Linux.
I think in the last 6 months there’s been some good work on this. But I have a similar AMD 6000 series system to them and I get almost twice the battery life on Linux.
That’s probably what most people want on a laptop on battery. Why would I want my CPU running full tilt for nothing? That’d largely why AMDs battery life on Linux is so bad.
my current laptop is probably an extreme example since i get around 4 hours of battery life on default fedora 43 workstation, but almost 8 hours (DOUBLE) on windows 11.
i’m aware that i can get longer battery life if i experiment with the power settings or try different power utilities (ie powertop), but i’ve learned from experience that the battery life will never be the same as it is using windows.
i’ve also learned from experience that only open source firmware projects like (ie coreboot) can give you the battery performance that can rival windows and mac and i got to enjoy that by buying linux-first laptops vendors with open source firmware on it like system76, tuxedo, etc.
the most irritating thing about the laptop i have now is that it will charge from 5% to 80% in 50 minutes when it’s running windows; but it takes almost 2 hours to do the same thing running fedora so i will probably buy from system76 again next time i need a new laptop. lol