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How bad is battery life on Linux laptop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I will need to get a laptop in the foreseeable future, and I really want to stick to Linux. However, I may need to be out-of-home for 12+ hours straight in a day. After some research, it seems people are generally not that impressed with battery life on Linux?

The laptop does not need to do anything heavy duty, as I will remote back into my already very beefy desktop back home.

I guess a common solution to this light use case is M2 MacBook if one wants to completely throw battery concern out of the window. Well... let's just say it's a love-hate relationship.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it was slim pickings. I tried a couple last year and finally ended up keeping an all-AMD Asus Zephyrus G14.

Others I tried:

MSI Delta 15: overall best performing of the bunch, returned it because of somewhat substandard machining and build quality. Linux worked perfectly out of the box.
Medion Erazer Major: Intel Arc laptop. Good performance but couldn't get the battery life up to good standards
Lenovo Legion S7 16: just stopped booting after a week
Asus Zephyrus G14: small, light, excellent quality, but a little bit of tweaking getting everything working

Today I would just preorder a Framework 16.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

all-AMD Asus Zephyrus G14

That was what I originally wanted! They were sold-out by the time I needed to buy one, so I went with an ASUS Scar something-something.

Most of the laptops I own are Dell laptops which originally came with Windows, on account of the 5-year repair deal where they repair it wherever you are (making use of IBM's network to do so). I didn't get a chance to see how the latest one worked with Windows 11 because I wiped it immediately...

I've heard good and bad things about Framework with Linux. I don't know if I would end up buying it either way, as it seems like it would demand more experience than I have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't find one locally either. Ended up ordering a returned product from Amazon abroad, a friend of mine then shipped it over. The stuff I do to avoid Nvidia...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was buying a new laptop subsidized on 80% store credit, so I could only go for what they had in stock, unfortunately. I still haven't had a single computer with an AMD GPU, but iGPU laptops give me a taste of what things could be like without NVIDIA...