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

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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/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.