How I DOUBLED my battery life on Arch Linux

[@limpa756]

mans didn't make it one minute before mentioning he uses arch

[@EverythingeeB]

i use arch btw

[@matthewrease2376]

Dawg it's in the TITLE

[@DevAngelo]

Just making sure the mortals don't waste time watching the vid xD

[@lolcathost]

hell yah i use arch btw as well with i3

[@bajiNdoel]

​@@lolcathosthow about the battery life?? My battery drain too much after install i3wm on ubuntu mate😢

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

Some more tricks: tlp also be used to control the cpu in addition to different devices (usb, bluetooth, wifi, etc.). HOWEVER, if you want to use tlp and auto-cpufreq together then don't add any config options to tlp telling tlp to manage the cpu (you can have tlp only manage devices). Otherwise tlp and auto-cpufreq will be fighting and your laptop will not have fun. powertop is like htop, but instead of showing resource usage it shows power usage. You can use the command `sudo powertop --calibrate` (does weird stuff for a few minutes) followed by `sudo powertop --auto-tune`. Calibrating will have powertop go through a bunch of settings to figure out which will save the most power. Auto-tune enables these calibrated settings. I'm not sure if powertop manages devices and the cpu or just devices, so read documentation or search the internet if you want to use it alongside tlp or auto-cpufreq. I think powertop also gives you the most battery life (maybe there's a better way I don't know), but at the cost of convenience (usb goes to sleep after inactivity, etc.).

[@EverythingeeB]

I used to use TLP, however it would mess up the sleep on my laptop. Sometimes I would unsuspend the laptop only to find it frozen and I'd have to do a hard reboot (which used 1-2% of my battery in the process). I would not really recommend TLP anymore because of that, at least on Arch

[@CarlJohnson-cb9xm]

​@@EverythingeeBeven after I remove tlp the sleep is still brocken do I have to reinstall the os or its a bug from manjaro

[@krishnabillonaire516]

please let me know if powertop --autotune will interfere with the cpu I am going to remove tlp not getting any much improvement out of it

[@CarlJohnson-cb9xm]

@@krishnabillonaire516 it's safe

[@krishnabillonaire516]

@@CarlJohnson-cb9xm ok I will try it when I get some free time

[@SC-kd5ln]

Guy is rubbing arch linux every 30 seconds on our face

[@no_name4796]

Isn't that the main reason to install arch, btw? I use fedora. Just want a stable distro which doesn't break if you sneeze too hard

[@KevinDieKatze_aviation]

i think one of the best think about older laptops there is that you can have two full charged batteries with you, and swap when needed

[@jacobnilssoncom2]

Good video. I got 30 minutes of extra battery life from using Gentoo over Arch. Turns out this difference is caused by using a custom kernel configuration (which can indeed be done on Arch or any other distribution). If you really need more battery life, consider writing a custom kernel configuration.

[@EverythingeeB]

I don't think I'm at that skill level lol. Thanks for watching though!

[@thebigbeje]

i am interested in trying this, can you give more details pls? i'm using arch on a x1c6. thanks!

[@amiraloi1694]

How do you update a compiled kernel? Should you recompile it?

[@joshuadc82]

Hahaha

[@Ada0h]

I would also like to add checking whether the igpu's drivers are installed as it helps a ton for video content as software decoding uses lots of power

[@EverythingeeB]

I think the iGPU drivers come preinstalled on Linux but thanks for the feedback!

[@Ada0h]

@@EverythingeeB Not always, sometimes there are more bits needed for proprietary video decoding (aka h264/265). For example on AMD and Fedora/OpenSUSE/and maybe Ubuntu too, another driver needs to be installed manually. Theres something kind of similar for Intel too iirc

[@jackkraken3888]

On a completely different note, running Arch, with a Vista wallpaper and having Mac windows animations is crazy. 😂

[@EverythingeeB]

LOL you're right

[@arcstur]

Thank you so much. The screen refresh rate alone already helped a lot.

[@EverythingeeB]

Glad it helped!

[@Durayne]

How is optimus only available on arch linux but comes with pop os as default? Honestly, makes no sense to me.

[@inqurity]

Even without a GUI, and with the lid closed, my PC uses around 8w (i used ssh to find out), do you have any idea why?

[@EverythingeeB]

Idle power consumption maybe?

[@inqurity]

@@EverythingeeB Maybe, but it's still a lot

[@eda2000-r8h]

Just shut it down man, linux boot up so quick already kkk :v

[@inqurity]

@@eda2000-r8h Normally I would. I did that just to test if the screen was using all that power

[@ENNEN420]

1:20 mine was 8 and a half hours we learned nothing and the days went into 9 hours.

[@LionXAnimations]

I used zorin And auto config doesn't work on hp omen Nvidia GeForce GTX

[@sourcey6620]

this really helped alot on my system. Thanks alot !

[@EverythingeeB]

Glad it helped!

[@claudiolagartija]

what about undervolting the cpu?

[@EverythingeeB]

Can you even do that on a laptop?? lol

[@eda2000-r8h]

​@@EverythingeeBif it have amd cpu, yes. Intel no hope

[@codedsprit]

I always have problem related to my battery life. It's works for only 45 minutes or less, which is literally no acceptable. Although I use less than 5 % of brightness, and implemented other saving ways but it's not working. Sed😢

[@joaopauloalbq]

Are you using hardware video acceleration on Brave? Firefox has hardware video acceleration by default and improve battery life a lot!

[@no_name4796]

Firefox halves my battery life in halves if i use it (from 7 hours to 4) So it's scary if firefox is the best. Also battery is one good reason for me to try and learn how to do stuff from terminal: terminal just uses so little battery life!

[@krishnabillonaire516]

auto cpu-freq makes my system so leggy and choppy any solution for that?

[@EverythingeeB]

Delete auto-cpufreq and use TLP

[@krishnabillonaire516]

@@EverythingeeB sure will definitely try

[@asunavk69]

Nice vid 👍, in my case for my gaming laptop a clevo notebook model p65_67 i use tuxedo control which pretty much gives close to full control to fan curve on gpu and cpu and underclocking the cpu to help out, it also helps out on temps quite a bit, and supergfxctl to switch between gpu's, not the best, i wish i could get full acpi call similiar to windows working but does the job, still. As for battery well in my case at most an hour but i think in this case is more of an hw problem as on windows it pretty much does not work.

[@Hakerbreak]

you start curiosity on me, i have some doubs 1.- what is your current battery average duration? 2.- what is your current distro? 3.- what do you say about the temperature? thaks for your reply

[@asunavk69]

@@Hakerbreak 1-battery life improved, but still not that great idk why, but this pc has a pretty bad battery, but on linux helps that you can also undeclock. 2-i am using kubuntu, but any based distro should do in terms of software(mint,kde neon, etc). 3-temps are about the same, this pc gets hots quick don't matter the os when cpu gets to 10% or more, just depends on how many things you have on the background in this case. Hope i helped you smh xp.

[@cosmicusstardust3300]

wallpaper please

[@inqurity]

It's just the Windows Vista default wallpaper, not that hard to find

[@alone-vf4vy]

we use Arch btw

[@Radsfer]

envy control for disabling gpu on fedora with hyprland works fine!

[@abhisheknag1929]

And here I am getting 5+ hours on that same gaming laptop on debloated windows 11 by changing refresh rate and cpu boosting and even without disabling nvidea graphic card😁

[@doctahjonez]

based compiz and vista theme

[@ELghaz]

anyone with hyprland?

[@FakeMichau]

Nice video editing, but your voice could be a little more "energetic". I may also consider using Vista's wallpaper, it's kinda cool

[@EverythingeeB]

Yeah I'm always trying to improve my voice. I will definitely work on making it more energetic. It's also kinda hard for me to do voice-overs since my voice is so dry because of fasting

[@hana-gabana7598]

TY!!!. after installing optimus manager i got a boot loop. had to reinstall the system, try again and after getting another boot loop, i uninstalled it via Ctrl+Alt+f2. that solves the problem for me

[@AmanTheDisciple]

Haha stop before he'll say, "you're welcome"

[@joeshelby3352]

better u use arch + dwm just suckless with xorg

[@lolcathost]

is i3 good? because i see no difference compared to windows its pretty much the same, it could also be placebo as in windows it doesnt really show you the percentage going down unless you click on it but in my arch setup i constantly have to monitor battery percentage.

[@joeshelby3352]

@@lolcathost u can see dwm is written by C it's faster than i3wm that u can write code on .dwm directly compiles the computer without any bloat, but yeah, it depends on what u need, u can explore better UI like bspwm, or such others. i do i3wm on my Arch, but rn, I use arch and Gentoo with DMW to be faster for pentesting and code web programming. dwm needs more skill and understanding of Linux work on computers.

[@moistness482]

I found KDE Plasma to outclass any DE and even WM when it comes to battery life

[@sheldonkupa9120]

Watching chess streams decreased my battery life to zero😆😉

[@matthewrease2376]

Bro says only 3 hours - I wish I could get 3 hours on my battery 😭

[@UNMEASURED100]

I wasn't even getting an hour of battery backup, then I bought a new one and got 8 hours+ backup

[@matthewrease2376]

@@UNMEASURED100 my battery is at 74% health so I could maybe get 33% more with a new battery but that's it.

[@Mike-kl5yc]

Bro I get 1 hour 😂, fucking hate this lol

[@Mike-kl5yc]

@@matthewrease2376mine is 90% maybe I can get a 2 hour max at least if I get a new one and optimize on Linux mint, but it’s not worth it. Also Firefox kills my battery like WTF!? Takes down 30 mins of life when I open it up.

[@ckotecnologia]

Oh, nice video.

[@EverythingeeB]

Thanks!

[@OrganicFoxes]

hey i got that same laptop, with the main gpu off and at 50hz i get around 3 hours of battery life

[@Gin3751]

WTF💀