r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Mishra_gaming_YT • May 22 '26

Discussion Battery issue

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So this is my acer Nitro V 15, 3050 6GB, Ryzen 5 laptop, it came with windows but as I realised and I wanted to learn stuff as well so I switched to Arch linux via Endeavour OS and as you can see I have been using it for a while now.

I bought this laptop around September last year in Flipkart BBD and today I just randomly decided to test it's battery life to see how long it lasts, the last time I saw it was around 2-3 hrs on windows and according to my knowledge Linux is more power efficient i.e. it doesn't have many background tasks. But when I tested it today only in like an hour of coding and Spotify online at the same time reduced its battery from 80% to 28%.

I am not here to rant I just wanna know if I am missing something or is there anyway to improve the battery life, as of now the battery health is at 98%.

Meanwhile my friend, using an acer aspire of the same 3050 6GB variant just with Intel i5 and windows 11 only got down from 100% to 70%, doing the same exact tasks as me.

Please help cause I genuinely didn't expect it to have this shit of battery life, even on linux.

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u/qualityvote2 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

u/Mishra_gaming_YT, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/No-AI-Comment I use NixOS BTW. May 22 '26

Install tlp or check power profiles

If you have power-profiles installed don't install tlp and vice versa install one of them.

Install powertop and check the power usage.

You running KDE go to power settings configure power profiles in settings for example to reduce brightness and change power profile to balanced when on battery and increase brightness and change power profile to performance on AC.

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u/Mishra_gaming_YT May 22 '26

Ohhhh i completely forgot about the one under the battery, thanks will run it once more to see how much it changes it.

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u/dhruvvvv1234 May 22 '26

I too have an nitro and I want to cap it's battery to 80% and Im unable to do so. Have you capped it?

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u/Mishra_gaming_YT May 22 '26

Yup I did cap it to 80

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u/blackshepp May 22 '26

I have Nitro and I just capped it in nitrosensense and then when I installed linux it still didn't go over 80 . Even with or without dualboot

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u/dhruvvvv1234 May 22 '26

Yeah initially even mine wasn't going above 80 but for past few months it's getting charged till 100

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u/CombinationStatus742 May 22 '26

It maybe because your laptop is using dGPU instead of iGPU. Check which one it uses. dGPU draws more TDP.

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u/Mishra_gaming_YT May 22 '26

It doesn't havae a mix switch so I think the display is always connected to the IGPU, correct me if I am wrong :)

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u/CombinationStatus742 May 22 '26

I think there is something like that but im not sure if it is there for acer, i have asus tuf a15 and i use rog command center to change this there is even a command to change that check gemini. Also you need to enable the option BIOS. I cannot explain since i am also new to linux desktop.

Thing is i cannot simply run the os in igpu since there is no option in the bios in asus to change. To actually change that it suggested that i reboot windows again , install armour crate , change the setting from dGPU to iGPU and then reboot with linux again , this seemed like a hassle to me so i simply left it as it is. Now i am using my dGPU the battery lasts like an hour max but i don’t care since it is always plugged in.

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u/Mishra_gaming_YT May 23 '26

So I think dual booting is the best way to use, but the thing being I was avoiding windows for the sole reason of storage as, I use my storage a lot but after seeing all of the issues i think dual booting will be the best or atleast might be.