so I installed Debian Buster with plasma KDE on my new old thinkpad. It works and is quite good. But it seems like KDE is too heavy on CPU compared to windows 10.
With win10 power saving mode battery shows up to 10 hours. With linux though only 6 hours. What should I do? Could switching to i3-gaps theoretically fix it?
So I installed Debian Buster with plasma KDE on my new old thinkpad. It works and is quite good...
Carson Ross
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Justin King
Switch to xfce or mate , i3-gaps is shitload of config and I you're newbie to linux you won't handle it.
Caleb Flores
Install TLP and check if you can get some tweaks out of it.
Sebastian Thomas
Debian isn't meant to be used for desktops and laptops. It's really only good for servers.
Levi Stewart
If you can handle the autism dwm will make your machine go a bit faster.
Lucas Evans
thanks fren
can you support your claim. It is called universal operating system
i will check this out
Jace Barnes
Install powertop
Powertop - - auto-tune
Profit
Jace Nguyen
Well KDE is known to be pretty heavy on resources
Thomas Rogers
Maybe something more lightweight than stable?
Chase Rogers
I'm using Debian on a laptop right now.
Nathaniel Smith
Use xfce. i3 needs some time to configure which can be a bit much if you're new to loonix, but it's much lighter than a de. I think awesomewm is even lighter on resources but don't take my work for it.
Jeremiah Lee
Try TLP for sure.
KDE idles around 1% CPU, should be less or the same as Windows.
Austin Williams
Disable the compositor. I just do that and make config file for the intel gpu.
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Connor Fisher
Also install thermald, sensord, fancontrol.
Hunter White
Yeah the compositor only increases input lag and slows down the performance, only worth for real when one needs vsync.
Jeremiah Martinez
You aren't meant to be posting on Jow Forums. You are really only good for r*ddit.
Cameron White
kde is just xfce but polished and features bloat
use gnome like torvalds, it just works
Jaxson Morgan
>use gnome
I am sorry, but unlike some other people, I have standards. I did like Unity though.
Brody Jones
It's Linux power management that's at fault. Anyone telling you that they get better battery life in Linux compared to Windows, or MacOS, is lying to you.
Daniel Gray
>like distro
>kde too heavy
sounds like you want gnome.
Grayson Williams
>the logo is a pube
lmao
Charles Foster
Edit grub parameters
mitigations=off noibrs nopti nospec
Cpu vulns are a meme. There had never been an exploit in the wild amd there never will be now that they are patched by default. Enjoy your full cpu speed.
Ryan Ward
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lol
Aiden Miller
JWM
James Foster
You are retarded.
John Allen
That's not how it works. It's the DE that slows it down.
Julian Reyes
>xfce
XFCE is a DE.
Jacob Bailey
Imagine being this new
Ayden Reyes
KDE GUI is shit. Use KDE apps in a light WM like JWM.
Matthew Lopez
Bloated KDE fanboys btfo.
Window managers all day.
Carter Garcia
Depends on the hardware support for your setup Obviously a machine build for a certain OS only will work better with that OS