According to this it says i am using 17-18 watts which contradicts what i looked up on google. google says the average laptop uses like 60 watts
what software can i download to find out how much power my laptop uses?
According to this it says i am using 17-18 watts which contradicts what i looked up on google. google says the average laptop uses like 60 watts
Linux uses less power than Windows/MacOS
>Linux uses less power than Windows/MacOS
yet battery life is dogshit unless you cripple everything
we call that the homosexual freetard paradox
>by cripple everything he meant removing unusable preinstalled trash that is windows
whatever helps you cope with a server OS on a laptop
Microshit has been "nudging" laptop manufactures to migrate system power state management away from the firmware level, and offload it to the OS instead. Consequently, advanced power management and granular sleep states could now only be controlled via winblows daemons.
>Linux uses less power than
>still loses to bloated Windows 11 in battery life
wow it's like freetards are lying all the time
This is just a lie. I ran Arch on two different laptops (old and new), and despite my efforts to make the battery life better--I just couldn't, and from what I read, there really isn't a solution. I did manage to improve it a lot, but W10 LTSC doubles the battery life without any tweaks. It's insane that, despite Windows' being much more bloated, its battery life is that much better.
see
manufacturers just fix everything at the OS level, i.e. in windows. you'd be shocked how much hardware technically isn't standards compliant
Well yes, I'm aware of this, and it's even worse on more modern hardware. The older laptop was closer to Windows' battery life, but on the newer laptop, the difference was night and day.
>but on the newer laptop, the difference was night and day.
in my experience it depends a LOT on the brand. my shitty lenovo consoomer laptop only gets about 30 min more on windows, on a gaymen laptop i didn't even bother dual booting because it got like 2 hours of web browsing
For me it’s about the same. All power saving features seem to be working correctly out of the box.
Lol troonix copers in the comment section. Love to see it.
>A lot of linux's higher power usage under load is going to be due to better cpu utilization than windows in video/photo rendering and editing, zipping/unzipping files, gaming etc... Look it up linux does in fact utilize cpu resources better
just LOL.
It's true, which is why on Windows you have options to crank power usage up. It's just not particularly desirable for laptops which is why we have i.e. thermald.
it uses less watts if you change it to power saver
fewer watts*
If you are charging the laptop obviously the Watts usage will be higher than normal...
powerstat won't work while the power supply is plugged in. it determines powerusage via the battery
ls /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/
Search for power_now (Lenovo uses) or currency_now (Dell uses this). If nothing like that is on that directory, you battery doesn't report the watts usage and you are fucked lol
The average watt usage in a laptop on idle is 3-5Watts on low TDP CPUS like U-Series of intel CPUs and 8-12Watts on a H-Series CPU
And by the way "Energy" is the remaining Watts that the battery has and Rate should be the watts usage lol learn 2 read. Hehehe
i don't know how to read this
20.72Watts
Use this command in the terminal please and see how it changes when you use the laptop or when you connect/disconnect the power supply.
watch -n 0.5 cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power_now
Problem solved
fuck, replace power_now by current_now lol I just copied straight from my command history
>current_now
Isn't that reporting amps not watts though?
Oh you are right I'm a fucking dumbass, on my thinkpad is power_now so it can be watts I guess but current_now according to the kernel docs its microamps lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power
holy shit you can click through the file explorer for /sys? wtf is this
>1366x768
It's a 2013 HP laptop, expected.
All files under sysfs are files like any other
https://github.com/svartalf/rust-battop
good enough for me
https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq
i'll post this here
so rate is the wattage?
i am only using 4 watts
Buy a power meter, connect your laptop through it, and read the power meter after a few hours of using it.
>trusting anything your garbage OS tells you
oh sweet summer children, just buy pic related already. it's p cool spending a day figuring out how much everything costs in electricity.