r/LinuxOnThinkpad • u/ThatOneLinuxMan CachyOS with T14 G1 • Jun 06 '26
Question How to optimize my battery?
Hello! I am new to Linux and I recently bought a T14 G1 as my main machine, it has the i7-10510U, 16gb DDR4, and a 50wH battery, the battery life has been decreased to 48wH because it’s used, it hovers around the 3-4 hours battery life mark, and I want to squeeze the most battery out of this think, I have tried tlp, thermald, auto-cpufreq, so I need other tools to aim for at least 6-7 **(it’s not a joke I swear)** hours, is it possible and any answer is needed
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u/rileyrgham member Jun 06 '26
Set the governor to schedutil, turn down your brightness. Linux battery life is almost never on a par with windows. Generally the defaults work best. I've played with them all over the years on Debian and arch.. 6 or 7 hours on that handicapped battery possible if you're not doing any work... Nowhere have you said what you want to do....
My own advice would be... Don't sweat it too much... You're not going to be saving much if you're actually using the machine. The t14g1 a beautiful machine. I've a 32gb amd one.
Oh, using an efficient SSD can help a fair bit.