I’ve installed TLP on my Lenovo ThinkBook laptop and was wondering if there are additional steps I can take to extend the battery life when using the laptop unplugged.

Could you please share more tips and tricks for maximizing battery life on Linux laptops?

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    111·
    3 months ago

    On modern CPUs they’re designed to “race to idle”. Consequently when they’re not idle they’re not very efficient. The biggest change that improves my battery life is adjusting how I do certain things. Instead of trying to slow things down even more to save power I just try to get them to finish quicker so my CPU can get back to idle (and efficient) faster.

    Intel is really awful with this. AMD is better but slowly getting to Intel levels. E cores might change things up a bit, but I don’t have experience with them yet.

    • Goun@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 months ago

      Intel is really awful with this. AMD is better but slowly getting to Intel levels.

      I don’t follow, I thought AMD was less efficient. You say it’s the other way around but it’s getting worse? Or I’m reading it wrong?

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I don’t follow, I thought AMD was less efficient.

        Hasn’t been the case since Zen launched in 2017.

        Although it took them 2-3 more years on laptop to overtake intel in efficiency, because of less sophisticated sleep stuff.