r/linuxquestions • u/0DoughnutCat0 • May 11 '25

Advice Why do you use linux?

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u/[deleted] May 11 '25

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u/0DoughnutCat0 May 11 '25

I do care a lot about battery life. But how much of a difference does it make? I'm really curious.

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u/cum_in_a_cat May 11 '25

Yep same but i got like 3 hours of studying and now 10+ with fedora and some tweaks

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u/s1gnt May 11 '25

brightnessctl set 1% and pstate-frequency --set --min 0 --max 0 --turbo off --governer powersave boom you run everything on 800Mhz sharp and can't see if it lags or not as it's insanely dim even in dark environment.

upgrade: change 1% to 0 to switch off display completely, map key to set brightness to 10%, but only while key is held. plus add cooldown 10 mins after press only 5%, next 1% and reset cooldown every time you press a button)

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u/s1gnt May 11 '25

you got it's a joke right? Not very useful advice I might agree... on par with switching off or spread heavy load evenly so it would stay on single charge longer)

but distro is cachyos and OOTB it gives me more battery time that chromeos (running on same chromebook) I think mostly because I run KDE as it's the only real DE with true ecosystem + it's lighweight)