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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by smoldesu on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:45AM (#38674072)
> if running all of these under Wine the battery life is going to become even less

Citation? Running a Wineserver should use less resources than a complete Win32 runtime.

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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by w0m on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:25PM (#38686185)
In my experience, even a 'light' linux distro isn't optimized enough to match Win or osx battery life on the same hardware.

Maybe things have changed since my last test (Ubuntu on my ~2011 MBA installed ~12mo ago)

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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by smoldesu on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:47PM (#38686508)
Frankly, I think that's more of a Linux problem than a Wine one. You're right that Linux is overall worse at power management than OSX or Windows, but Wine itself is extremely light on any OS it supports. On a resource-constrained machine (eg. >2gb RAM), I'd imagine that Wine would be less resource-intensive than native modern Windows would.
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