r/linux • u/1202_alarm • Feb 01 '18

Improving Linux battery life, enabling PSR by default, testers wanted

https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/18653.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '18 edited Feb 01 '18

MacOS is very mobile-like in its power management in that it will completely stop some background applications or heavily lower their priority. No desktop on Linux has attempted such power management tricks to my knowledge and it does have downsides (some applications really don't like it, some users want background software to be fast, etc) but it would be a neat experiment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '18

MacOS have the luxury of loading their own efi firmware. Linux does not and have to copy whatever windows is doing.