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.

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    11 months ago

    It’s very dependent on the laptop. Some ThinkPad get better battery life than on Linux because a lot of kernel devs use them.

    • cygnus@lemmy.ca
      4·
      11 months ago

      My X1 Carbon gets about 15% better battery life with PopOS vs. Windows.

    • OmltCat@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      That’s new info for me thanks. Never knew thinkpad can excel in this department.

      • const_void@lemmy.ml
        2·
        11 months ago

        It depends on the ThinkPad. They’re not all created equally and the quality between models varies wildly.