A new version of Power Profiles Daemon in Ubuntu 24.04 offers power efficiency improvements for laptop users, but those with modern AMD devices may see
  • barbara@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    power-profiles-daemon is used by GNOME and KDE yet the article reads as if this was ubuntu only.

  • kadu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Still far from ideal, though. My 2017 MacBook Air with a severely degraded battery lasts 4 hours on macOS, but only 2.5h on Ubuntu 24.04 using the power saving profile - and that’s with less intensive usage, as macOS keeps rendering gaussian blurs everywhere and launchpad and spotlight and all those annoying services.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      The great irony is, when I ran Windows native on those Intel Macbooks, I was getting better battery and performance than with macOS.

      • kadu@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Not sure why your comment was downvoted, you’re actually correct, Windows is got better battery life. The only reason I’m not running it on this MacBook is an unpatched bug in the Intel HD Graphics driver that prevents it from working with newer Windows versions on MacBooks with this specific display adapter.