I've just installed linux on my brand new laptop and it's got horrible battery life (1 hour 50 minutes on 70%! and 3-4 hours fully charged) ...
Windows lasts almost 3 times longer on battery than Mint 16 Cinnamon! :shock: How can this be possible? I even tried TLP and CPUFreq to no avail ...
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After years of being annoyed with windows and some good experience running Mint 19 on a desktop, I decided to load Mint 21 on my new laptop.
On Linux mint 18.3 after fresh install the battery lasted 4 hours max (all settings default). Then I tweaked the stuffs here and there like ...
Poor battery life is the one ongoing problem I have with Mint 16 since I installed it. :roll: I'm getting only about 45 minutes with wifi ...
On previous laptops I've dual booted with Mint and Windows I've noticed worse battery life when running Linux. Although I haven't run Windows ...
Actually, I not only lost half of my battery installing LM 21 but the boot time almost doubled too and some minor bugs like the shutdown button ...
I think there must be some kind of hardware issue going on. Capacity is now down to 59.3%, yesterday was 65%. Battery is 2 weeks old, and the ...
The battery lasts around 5 hours but would last 8 hours on windows 11. Like sure I guess shorter battery time is managable if mint lacks ...
1) Linux in general will have worse battery life than Windows. There are a few reasons for this, mostly revolving around hardware vendors ...