How bad is battery life on Linux laptop?
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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installed Linux Mint on various apple macbooks i got second hand and the battery life is abysmal.
English is not my first language, said that, abysmal is too good or too bad?
very bad, sadly
no good
Intel or ARM?
The battery life on Apple Silicon (at least on MacOS) is so good it's bonkers. I've been curious about how well Linux does, but I haven't successfully gotten a Linux distro w/ desktop fully running on my M2 MacBook yet (driver issues).
Old Intel crapbook air from 2013 or 2015. The battery life wasn't ever great, but it significantly diminished when i changed them to linux. I expected an increase...