Saving Power on a Linux Laptop

Stop using TLP, indicator-cpufreq, and powertop! This new package will blow your mind and SAVE POWER on ANY linux laptop!

[DannyMexen]

This is what Linux YouTube channels are best at. Thanks, Chris. Do these types of video more.

[lightninguru]

So happy you covered this package. Adnan deserves the recognition for his work. Such a underrated and unknown gem.

[ripe_apple]

I was frustrated with my laptop for lack of battery life, followed your suggestion and man I am loving it, Thanks Chris 👍

[tanchelm]

Before to install auto-cpufreq my cpu usage it was always at over 50% when i was watching youtube, but now is around 10-14% that's amazing. Also the battery life improved 2x.

[rushi]

I am not sure I agree with what Chris is saying in this one.

I used autocpufreq on Arch with a relatively minimal hyprland install. I couldn't get my laptop under 8W idle.

Now I use TLP with nixos and hyprland, and I go down to 4W with usable brightness when idle.

Under small offline workload (i.e. taking notes with Marktext and a few Evince windows open), it draws 5-6W. My battery is old and only has 35-40Wh left out of the 59 it had, yet the laptop can handle 4-5h of low workload just fine.
For reference I have an i5-9300H

PS: for those who say this kind of technology is useless, I ain't sure about that, as out of the box after any install, the laptop usually draws 11-14W!

[mata]

Don't need power saving when your battery is dead..

[fannah]

Thought you were going to install through snap. Don't scare me like that lmao.

[kinshukgoel]

Ever since I started using this yesterday, I've gotten MUCH more battery life than before
Thanks Chris!

[Amogh-Dongre]

I actually used to just undervolt my cpu and gpu using tuxclocker and amd-clocks and boy did it help power consumption noise but more importantly battery life went from around 3-3.5hrs to a full fat 8hrs while web browsing and lightly threaded work and from 2 hrs to about 4hrs when under full load and this is without losing a drop of definitely check this out thank you Chris for this (all of the testing was done on my asus dash 15)

[shaswatdas]

"it works with tlp" means turbo boost stays on when both tlp and autocpufreq is installed. Additionally tlp manages usb power and other things to increase battery life.

[vladislavkaras]

Great video.
Would be also cool to see some kind of benchmark of battery and performance. With/without all those utillities.
Thanks!

[Fred-oliveiriks]

I've used this in the past. Just a heads up: TLP does NOT disable turbo boost unless you specify it in the config file.
I install tlp on all my machines to better control the max/minimum frequencies. You should read the config file from top to bottom, i never heard about TLP sucking because it turns off turbo boost

[mfatihy_]

I switched to MATE from GNOME a few months ago and it increased the battery life dramatically

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Chris. Huh. I've never had any problem on refurbished Thinkpads and so on. I'll look into this.

[_sneer_]

It's been a while since I have had a laptop... until recently. You're a life saver, Chris. Running that on my 11.6 inch Asus with Kali. Thanks!

[OcteractSG]

Good to know. Laptops still have challenges due to having screen backlights and touchpads. When a manufacturer (like Synaptics) does not play ball with the Linux Kernel developers, user experience can really suffer.

[websiterepairguy]

Wonderful utility! My charger/power brick was as warm as a lightbulb in my hands. Hoping for cooler temps! I've installed it and will evaluate over next few days.

[lucienreyes]

This is so relevant
Been waiting a long time

[castyweb]

This is amaaazing 🙂 !! This tool just completely change my battery life with Linux. This tool must be shared all over the Linux community. The power save is a huge constraint for users when they consider to switch to Linux on a laptop. Thank you so much for this video. TLP does nothing compared to this tool....

[Markxtrm]

Ehi, Chris, nice video!

The only downside of auto-cpufreq is that it slows down a little bit everything, even on performance mode. But it's normal for what it does. It'd be great if he add some toggle to completely disable it, maybe through a systray icon or some nice shortcut