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How bad is battery life on Linux laptop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by OmltCat@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I will need to get a laptop in the foreseeable future, and I really want to stick to Linux. However, I may need to be out-of-home for 12+ hours straight in a day. After some research, it seems people are generally not that impressed with battery life on Linux?

The laptop does not need to do anything heavy duty, as I will remote back into my already very beefy desktop back home.

I guess a common solution to this light use case is M2 MacBook if one wants to completely throw battery concern out of the window. Well... let's just say it's a love-hate relationship.

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[–] offspec@lemmy.nicknakin.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got a Surface Laptop 3 running Fedora that is always dead after an extended sleep. Actual working battery life is not bad though.

[–] nalyd@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's worth knowing as a fellow Surface owner that that is very nonstandard. My Surface Pro 6 (admittedly much newer) lasts days or weeks if I just slap the lid closed and leave it somewhere, I think you might be missing something in the linux-surface github.

To any non-surface owners reading this, it's a Microsoft problem because the whole laptop is a custom Microsoft product and only has ACPI drivers on Windows, though, there is some open source support with a kernel patch that hasn't cleared it's way to mainline support

[–] offspec@lemmy.nicknakin.com 2 points 1 year ago

I pull kernels from the Linux surface repo, so I would expect to have whatever's latest