Battery Life on Linux

>Windows 10
>Battery life = 5 hrs

>Linux
>Battery Life = 2 hrs
>user you are a fucking retard, get TLP and powertop
>k...
>Battery Life = 3 hrs

Why do you mess with my life like this Sup Forums?

Why is battery life so shit on laptop with Linux?

Because linux is crap. All the gay ass anime posters will get mad but its true. Its an incomplete system with no features.

>t. I never knew the comfort of programming on Linux before
I never said it was crap, I just want better battery life.

Battery life is fine on my Thinkpad. Maybe you should use hardware made by people who aren't out to subjucuck their own customers.

Except the problem is on my thinkpad... T530 to be exact. Stop with your shit memes because the problems are universal on every pc.

My battery life is longer on linux

Yeah also how you cant really change mouse speed.

> Shit memes
No memes, friendski. Check your load average. Should be

microshit chills are the cancer of this board

Depends on the driver support of the power management aspects, the OS/distro support of them, AND the user settings. So you either bought something with shitty support, used a distro that doesn't use it properly, or didn't set or right.

Before 10 was out, a clean install of windows on the same laptop would have shit battery life as well: because it didn't come with all the vendor specific stuff. I've heard with 10 it's not as bad, but haven't checked it out.

>Yeah also how you cant really change mouse speed.
Well you can, but there is no gui for it really. Gotta go into xinput.

>mfw it is a T530 thinkpad

>use powertop to manually turn off unneeded programs instead of windows doing it for you
Why is Linux good again?

> Windows turning unneeded things off
> Implying Winshit isn't a maelstrom of shitty antifeatures
Good one, Anoin.

Windows 10 is far more resource heavy that most Linux distros, I'm using mint on my laptop and roughly use 1/2 the ram for basically the same tasks I do on Windows.

>windows does it for you

>Implying that half of Windows background processes aren't botnet and telemetry

yet somehow has more battery life than linux

I get better battery life and thermals running Ubuntu with unity than wincuck 10. Enable tlp (yes enable. Don't just install it) and powertop --auto-tune

battery life on DE: 1.5h
battery life on light wm: 4h
DEs are crap and they are to blame

It doesn't unless you run a shit distro.

no shit I enabled it... the fuck...

So what distro doesn't suck?
Fags keep talking "you're using it wrong" but can't prove linux isn't shit overall

Freetards are delusional
>W-WELL JUST KEEP IT PLUGGED IN
>JUST STOP RUNNING BINARIES
>I-ITS YOUR DISTRO
Linux is useless for anything other than running servers with minimal overhead