Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings on Some Linux Systems

Re:Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings ... by motogpjimbo on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:25AM (#23270893)

We also use Dell XPS laptops with Ubuntu. We get about an hour of battery life and no hibernate or suspend.

It's made me consider installing Windows and developing inside VirtualBox.

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Re:Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings ... by krastanov on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:37AM (#23271387)

Check `/sys/power/men_sleep`. For me its default setting was the source of poor battery life during suspend.

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Re:Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings ... by willis936 on Friday May 22, 2020 @09:05AM (#23271577)

If you don’t need a dm, I recommend Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It’s been a joy to use so far. GUI applications can run via X11 server (I recommend VcXsrv).

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Re:Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings ... by MivLives on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:57AM (#23271132)

I actually did this for awhile. It was kinda nice from a distraction point of view, as the VM didnt have my bookmarks or other programs.

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