brent saner via plug on 27 Mar 2025 18:12:24 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Power consumption difference

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 13:59 Rich Mingin (PLUG) via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
It’s 99% the DE. I don’t have anything to do with Manjaro, elaboration on request, but I have Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, Hyprland and a few others on my Framework 13 (AMD). My tuned Hyprland has the lowest battery burn, my Cinnamon is pretty mid, and KDE Plasma burns my battery with all the pretty widgets and heavy infrastructure. I’m guessing my battery is lot more dense, since my runtimes are roughly 9, 7, and 4 hours for Hyprland, Cinnamon, and KDE respectively, but it’s a ratio of how much you have and how fast you burn it.


I'd agree with it probably being a difference in the DE, yeah; especially since 6.13 didn't have a lot of crazy power mgmt optimization from 6.12.[0]

Manjaro also, IIRC, runs a more loaded idle state than EndeavourOS but that's likely not the main source of discrepancy.

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.13#Power_Management
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