> and the instant you slap Linux onto a Windows machine, battery life plummets.
So admittedly the last time I did this was in 2003, but back then, slapping linux on my Thinkpad tripled the battery life.
Has Windows power management gotten so good and Linux so bad that it's swapped now?
In linux I could do things like turn off disk syncing so the hard drive didn't spin up. I know with SSD that's not a thing now, but I always assumed there were things you could control with Linux that you couldn't control with Windows.
So admittedly the last time I did this was in 2003, but back then, slapping linux on my Thinkpad tripled the battery life.
Has Windows power management gotten so good and Linux so bad that it's swapped now?
In linux I could do things like turn off disk syncing so the hard drive didn't spin up. I know with SSD that's not a thing now, but I always assumed there were things you could control with Linux that you couldn't control with Windows.