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ufmaceyesterday at 5:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is there a laptop with super-awesome battery life on Linux? I'll buy one if so.

I'm not sure it's fair to ding Framework specifically for not being able to make Linux battery life as good as Windows. Is that actually something they could reasonably fix?


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cosmic_cheeseyesterday at 5:40 PM

It’s not about dinging Framework specifically and more about if you want *nix and top tier battery life, MacBooks remain the best option.

My understanding is that the reason why Linux still struggles in this front is that nobody has put in the hardware-specific optimization work to make it happen. There’s also some friction with how the bulk of Linux dev attention is paid to servers rather than portable consumer hardware.

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