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Advice regarding power efficient distros needed (feddit.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So I'm looking for a distro that I can put on my laptop in addition to kde neon and boot into when I want to save battery. The thing is I'm not even sure if I can expect a noticeable difference or if the display and applications I want to use (mostly just basic office stuff and maybe a browser but I want to use this in the forest so I won't have wifi anyway) already draw so much power that background processes don't really matter. If you think they do then I'd like to hear about especially efficient distros. I'm not a poweruser though so anything that requires extensive setup or maintainance won't work for me sadly. I was thinking maybe something like kanotix that loads to RAM but like I said I'm not sure if that actually saves power.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

The main power draws on a laptop are the display, the GPU, and CPU in that order. If you can't tame the first two, the third won't matter if we're discussing hardware platforms in the past 5 years.

If you can tune one distro to be as power efficient as you like, any of them can do it. There is no functional difference between any of them that is not configurable.

The most power efficient and balanced platform you're going to get is an AMD APU for general work, or something REALLY weak but efficient like the lowest of low-end Intel like the n-series chips.

Anything with Nvidia in it is going to drain your battery quickly, even if not being utilized (that's a hardware design thing I won't go into).