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_jcwu on July 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux 4.7 Released

By default it is pretty bad. But if you install powertop and tlp you should be good. I get pretty good battery life on my Thinkpad this way.

http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...

beefsack on July 25, 2016 [–]

The Arch Wiki[1] has some good docs on power management, it's an interesting read even if you're not using Arch.

The short of it though is as you suggest, even just installing TLP makes a monumental improvement to battery life.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management

_jcwu on July 25, 2016 | [–]

I love Arch Wiki. It's always useful even if not using Arch.

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