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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)

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[–] megabyteX 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Lol, a lot of wrong information here. 30 mins only, wth. There must be something really wrong with your battery or setup. I am currently writing this from a Legion 5 Slim laptop with 13th gen i7 CPU with 20 cores total, and I get more then four and a half hours of battery life with 85% display brightness in power saving mode.

P.S. this is why I take a lot of information from Linux "pros" like you with a ~~grain~~ truck of salt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Linux “pros”

I use windows on this machine, and only because windows gets better battery life generally on newer hardware.

I can get more than 30 minutes of battery life. But doing any sort of work on an i9 and having an rtx 3080 active drains the 90 watt hour battery pretty quickly. If I do nothing I can get almost 10 hours of battery life, but that's doing nothing. I get 3 or 4 doing light tasks, or 2 or less doing my normal work with the GPU off simply because I keep the CPU active and Intel CPUs get garbage battery life active. My AMD latptop gets 4+ in the same workloads, and my M1 macbook gets 6+ emulating the same work load. As a person I'm just incompatible with Intels race to idle, and their architecture is based on that.