Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux?

Re:Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux? by blacksmith_tb on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:33PM (#13555530)

Generally a good place to start would be powertop[1]

1: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop

(my memory is it's in the Ubuntu repos so you should be able to apt install it)

it has an "I'm feeling lucky" flag,

> powertop --auto-tune

which theoretically should make good choices for you.

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Re:Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux? by ge96 on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:39PM (#13563971)

Cool I will check that out. I do feel bad wiping the original OS though at least with Windows 10 there's no worry about serials, also I did use USB 3.0 as a "hard drive" For a bit, but the inability to sleep I think since it has to be constantly powered but I might be mistaken. I am using a USB 3.0 for a house web server, pretty cool. Thanks.

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