power-profiles-daemon is used by GNOME and KDE yet the article reads as if this was ubuntu only.
It’s omgUBUNTU, you know.
Yeah Fedora uses that since forever and will even switch away from it in half a year or so, to tuned.
But a users reported way better batterylife on Ubuntu than on Fedora. So maybe they do something better?
Still far from ideal, though. My 2017 MacBook Air with a severely degraded battery lasts 4 hours on macOS, but only 2.5h on Ubuntu 24.04 using the power saving profile - and that’s with less intensive usage, as macOS keeps rendering gaussian blurs everywhere and launchpad and spotlight and all those annoying services.
The great irony is, when I ran Windows native on those Intel Macbooks, I was getting better battery and performance than with macOS.
Not sure why your comment was downvoted, you’re actually correct, Windows is got better battery life. The only reason I’m not running it on this MacBook is an unpatched bug in the Intel HD Graphics driver that prevents it from working with newer Windows versions on MacBooks with this specific display adapter.
Breh, I thought they had a new battery saving technology breakthrough. Lol Power profiles daemon? So they didn’t have it in the distro before?
