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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by qwytw on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:47AM (#37234029)
Isn't battery life generally much worse on Linux compared to Windows?
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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by bee_rider on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:17PM (#37238324)
It is pretty configurable. I don’t see why it should be worse (assuming of course you don’t have driver problems).

And the configuration is pretty helpful, for example I have an OLED screen, so I can get some power savings from making things mostly black.

Plus the hard drive can mostly be idle; you don’t have Cortana or whatever they call it now poking around for interesting bits.

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