• lama@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Why pay Microsoft for this when my Linux laptop already does this for free

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      17 hours ago

      My Linux laptop has a battery life of ~17 hours … on a shitty little laptop from 2016 on the original battery.

      You might want to look into what exactly is using all that power and fixing the issue.

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        16 hours ago

        My linux laptop is a workstation (TP W530) that manages about 8 hours on a custom battery with twice the original capacity

        Lol

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          16 hours ago

          Yes I think I’ve had pretty bad luck on that front both my current laptop (framework 13) and old laptop (XPS 13) have had sleep issues.

          My laptop’s battery isn’t great, but my real problem is with sleep. the battery for me can drop 20% - 30% overnight and sometimes it just doesn’t go to sleep and the laptop is totally dead in the morning.

          I’ve tried some of the optimization on the arch wiki for my laptop but no luck 😕

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            12 hours ago

            If you have an SSD consider hibernation. It’s not that fast but usually much more stable and actually shuts down properly.