Ubuntu now available from the Windows store

Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by supremesaboteur on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:37AM (#14742043)

I installed Linux on my company Mac and it feels like my battery charge lasts less long

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by 8draco8 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:57AM (#14742597)

Linux on mac will always have shorter battery live. That's mostly because of Apple proprietary code required for power management.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by beerbaron23 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:33AM (#14743996)

I will say it's mostly due to the amount of effort creating power-saving features in OSX that are not present in other OS's. It's quite interesting all the little things they do to prolong the battery.

I have Fedora 25 with TLP, it operates fine, there is nothing proprietary blocking it (but you do need TLP, install it asap to get any batt life out of Linux) on my macbook and I can almost reach 5 1/2 hours web browsing (Opera with battery saver). On OSX I can easily obtain 9 hours doing similar work. This is all on a 6 year old battery too.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by Kenji on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:39AM (#14742050)

Can confirm. Also, Windows actually saves batteries compared to a vanilla Ubuntu install. I don't know why but Linux GUI is extremely wasteful for some reason.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by amarant on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:44AM (#14742070)

It's not the GUI, power management tools in Linux are somewhat behind the curve. Or so I'm told anyway

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