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Battery life on Ubuntu with AMD (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Cmr2333@alien.top to c/framework@hardware.watch

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Out of curiosity, I've seen decent things about the battery life improvement with the new AMD boards in Windows. What's the battery life like in linux, particularly Ubuntu? Experiences with other distros also welcome.

Thinking of giving Linux an actual shot this time around as a daily driver.

Thanks!

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[–] -ayarei@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Battery life on Fedora with Gnome with my 7640u has honestly not been very good to me. I've followed all of Framework's recommendations for battery optimization but I'm still only getting between 3-4 hours of battery life. I don't feel like my use case is particularly a heavy load either, it's mostly web browsing and watching video playback (i.e. YouTube and Twitch).

I'm considering switching to Linux Mint Mate, which would be lighter on resources and hopefully help a bit with battery.

[–] Mooks79@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried the Firefox flatpak for watching YouTube? I understand the hardware acceleration works better on that.

[–] -ayarei@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I haven't but I'll try that out.