laptop battery life via linux?

porkrind · 28 Nov 2006 at 22:11

Do you still get the same battery life when running linux on a laptop to running XP?

FirebarUK · 28 Nov 2006 at 22:42

Didn't used to but just installed FC6 and I get around 75% the amount of battery life I get in XP.

porkrind · 28 Nov 2006 at 23:10

ouch ! I was thinking would be same ?

Freakish_05 · 29 Nov 2006 at 07:15

The problem with Linux is that it doesn't have the more advanced power management facilities of windows

There is some tweaking you could do I imagine, not entirely sure.
I'll be migrating my laptop to Kubuntu in the next week or so, I'll let you know how I get on.