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.

  • scottywh@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Battery life on laptops is always over exaggerated regardless what OS you run.

    12+ hours of actual battery life during use just doesn’t happen.

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      2 years ago

      yeah I put Linux on my 2019 XPS 15 back in 2019 and went from 4 hours of usable productivity time to 4 hours of usable productivity time

      battery degradation is a much bigger issue than Linux vs windows