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.
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.
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.
On Arch I installed the “auto-cpufreq” package and my battery life is fine
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.
Debian and Ubuntu works great on my ThinkPad. Getting better battery life in fact coz it sleeps properly compared to windows.