Linux - UBUNTU - Battery - Sad-face

[Jonny_hikingferal]

I decided to reinstall UBUNTU the other day and i haven't logged into windows since, i absolutely love it - i could go on and on and on about how good it is and why but there's one problem. Due to manufacturers refusing to share the power saving information of their machines with anybody but Microsoft the battery life is frankly atrocious, it's worse than some random Chinese knock off tablet and that's a huge shame but not a deal breaker for me as i am normally connected to the socket. Does anybody have any tips for me, a novice Linux user who loves UBUNTU and does not want to use Windows but feels he may have to should he leave the house for more than 12hrs lol? I have tried TLC or whatever it was called and slim-book battery, they gave me maybe half an hour a day extra. 

[svmlegacy]

Have you tried changing the power mode to a more efficient one? Depending on the system it can have a good impact on battery life.

[Jonny_hikingferal]

42 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

Have you tried changing the power mode to a more efficient one? Depending on the system it can have a good impact on battery life.

Yeah i have and it does help for sure, i feel like 100 to 80 percent falls really really fast and then it slows down a bit. almost there with it but it's still pretty poor

[Guest]

The main reason that manufacturers are loathe to give users any real information is MONEY. With open source platforms they have no way to leverage them to let them have what they really want from the end user, their name and more importantly their actual email address that they can then sell to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that will pay them.

How do you expect them to make money, selling a device that costs them $100 to manufacture for $200? No they want as much as they can get, irregardless to the end users wants and needs.

[Sauron]

you can use cpufreq to tune your cpu's boost settings and maximum frequency, thus lowering power consumption. You can then change back to maximum performance when you're on wall power.

[Alexeygridnev1993]

Try to install tlp . It automatically enables power-saving measures, which  can help a bit. But this is a known problem, laptop battery life on Linux is always less than on Windows without really heavy tuning.

[HeroRareheart]

3 hours ago, Alexeygridnev1993 said:

Try to install tlp . It automatically enables power-saving measures, which  can help a bit. But this is a known problem, laptop battery life on Linux is always less than on Windows without really heavy tuning.

This. Linux just isn't as good with conserving battery life, for the best experience buy a machine built for Linux. The best OP can do is but an extended battery and second battery if the device supports more then one along side basic tweaks like tlp.

[Jonny_hikingferal]

Thanks all, Battery saving programs are the best bet but none of them are particularly good and it's not Linux's fault, just a lack of transparency when it comes to proprietary hardware and software. I'm not about to go out and buy a "Linux specific machine" because imo that goes against everything Linux stands for and the whole point of the OS, just give up on a perfectly good device and buy another one.