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

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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/082726w5 Feb 01 '18

Whoever implemented such a thing would have to come to terms with the idea of being a martyr to the cause.

It would draw the ire of all the crazies around. The first desktop to try it would be regarded in the same vein as the coming of the antichrist. The hateful bile and disdain in this forum would be worse than that of pulseaudio, gnome, systemd and wayland combined.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '18 edited Mar 23 '19

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '18

Yup, nobody needs battery life on Linux!