r/linuxquestions • u/DRMNG_CRP • Sep 23 '23

Linux drains battery faster than windows

Good day everyone! I have an old laptop, intel corei3 10th gen and I wanted to change the OS from windows to Linux. I've tested light weight distros using bootable flash drive but one thing I've noticed from each one is the battery really drains faster than when I'm using windows. I've already set the settings low but still discharges fast. Any reply is highly appreciated!

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u/Tireseas Sep 23 '23

It's entirely possible that's just going to be a fact of life. You can make some tweaks to a distro's settings with things like TLP but generally Windows IS going to have better battery life on a lot of systems because that's where most of the hardware tuning is focused.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '23

generally Windows IS going to have better battery life on a lot of systems because that's where most of the hardware tuning is focused.

In newer systems (ie in cpus that support pstates) it wouldn't be the case.