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waszqba
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So there I have a laptop in dual boot efi that starts directly to mint and has Windows as secondary os. As much as i appreciate mint for being Linux, I cannot really understand why does my laptop last twice as much on Windows on moderate saving settings, regardless of what I'm doing. Colleague who talked me into mint told me it would shorten battery life only by a slight bit. Can anyone tell me how is that possible or how to improve mints battery life?

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  • 2
    only thing I can think of is use a more lightweight desktop environment (unless you already have like mate or xfce). last time I checked mint didn't have any power saving settings other tham the display stuff
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    @karwler is cinnamon really that heavy?
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    @waszqba it's not that bad, but my laptop didn't handle it all too well. although I highly doubt that a different desktop environment will solve the issue entirely
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    I have the exact same setup with the same shitty battery life reduction.
    The one thing that helpes a little is to use intel graphics instead of the Nvidia. But changing from one to the other is a pain in the ass, while Windows does it automatically.
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