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sincerelyyesterday at 6:41 PM1 replyview on HN

I have an AMD thinkpad and get maybe 1/4 the battery life on Linux as I do when I boot inti Windows, did you have to do any tweaking to achieve that?


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fshyesterday at 6:45 PM

I typically install and enable tlp [1], but that's it. Some distros/DEs might have it out of the box, but on Arch I had to do it myself.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP