Re: [PLUG] Power consumption difference

["K.S. Bhaskar via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

A final note: Although the battery lasted longer with EndeavourOS+Cinnamon than with Manjaro+Plasma, the former was still insufficient to get me through a meeting. As upower told me that the battery was not charging above something like 54% of capacity, I replaced the battery this weekend, and the new battery got me through a 3 hour meeting yesterday evening. Starting with a battery at well over 90% charge, after three hours it was down to something like 50%. I'm disappointed that the original battery only lasted two years, and hope the replacement does better.

Now I have to find out where to responsibly dispose of the old battery…

Regards

– Bhaskar

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM K.S. Bhaskar <ksbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:

My laptop can boot either Manjaro Linux or EndeavourOS, both Arch Linux derivatives and both patched reasonably recently (within the last week). Manjaro has a 6.12.19-1-MANJARO kernel with the Plasma desktop, and EndeavourOS has a 6.13.7-arch1-1 kernel with the Cinnamon desktop. Both have the power profile set to Balanced. Interestingly, when running on battery, no external devices connected, Bluetooth and wifi turned on, I seem to get 1-2 hours when I run Manjaro and 2-3 hours when I run EndeavourOS. In both cases, I am just doing light work like e-mail, reading online documentation, etc.; nothing like compiling, or playing games. I just noticed this difference recently and have not done formal measurement. I wonder whether the difference is the kernel, the desktop, or something else (like random variation into which I am trying to read something meaningful).

Regards
- Bhaskar

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