I’ve installed TLP on my Lenovo ThinkBook laptop and was wondering if there are additional steps I can take to extend the battery life when using the laptop unplugged.
Could you please share more tips and tricks for maximizing battery life on Linux laptops?
Lowering screen brightness, turn off keyboard back lighting.
But thing is, on some devices, certain power states just may not work.
powertop is a cool tool that can analyze your machine and provide a list of suggested power optimizations
This is the way. You need to check whether CPU and package are mostly in the highest C-states they can be. If not, you’ve got a task or IO device causing a lot of wasted power.
terminal is your friend
I once just needed to take notes in a lecture so I didn’t start my X server and just wrote in vim in TTY.
Turn off radios (Bluetooth, wifi bands) that you aren’t using.
Also GPUs, if you have more than one.
