u/Mishra_gaming_YT

Battery issue
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Battery issue

So this is my acer Nitro V 15, 3050 6GB, Ryzen 5 laptop, it came with windows but as I realised and I wanted to learn stuff as well so I switched to Arch linux via Endeavour OS and as you can see I have been using it for a while now.

I bought this laptop around September last year in Flipkart BBD and today I just randomly decided to test it's battery life to see how long it lasts, the last time I saw it was around 2-3 hrs on windows and according to my knowledge Linux is more power efficient i.e. it doesn't have many background tasks. But when I tested it today only in like an hour of coding and Spotify online at the same time reduced its battery from 80% to 28%.

I am not here to rant I just wanna know if I am missing something or is there anyway to improve the battery life, as of now the battery health is at 98%.

Meanwhile my friend, using an acer aspire of the same 3050 6GB variant just with Intel i5 and windows 11 only got down from 100% to 70%, doing the same exact tasks as me.

Please help cause I genuinely didn't expect it to have this shit of battery life, even on linux.

u/Mishra_gaming_YT — 1 day ago