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Question added by Syed Atif Ali IT Infrastructure Director Bayt.com, Inc
11 years ago

Which Latptop and Linux OS has better battery life ?‎

Linux in my experience is lagging behind in battery performance when it comes to laptops. Which laptop and Linux OS combinations has overcome this issue ?‎

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Answer added by  Deleted user
11 years ago

the more lightweight desktop, the longer battery life. If you're familiar with Linux distros, you can take a look at any distro with Xfce or LXDE as environment. For ... See More

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Answer added by  Muhannad Kilani, Technical Account Manager, Panorama IT
11 years ago

Ubuntu is my favoritue 

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Answer added by  Deleted user
11 years ago

Ubuntu is the best flavor for laptop

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Answer added by  Dariusz Duma, System Engineer, Cisco
11 years ago

I assume, you want to work in graphics mode. General rule says - the more lightweight desktop, the longer battery life. If you're familiar with Linux distros, you ca ... See More

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Answer added by  Ahmed Hussien
8 years ago

The more "GUI" you have the more battery it would consume, same goes for the processes, so if you want to have the best OS with a battery life then probably any ... See More

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Answer added by  Faisal Farooq, Network & Linux System Support Engineer, RED SIGNAL
9 years ago

Debian is good one easy to use and very flexible.

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Answer added by  Rajesh Pant, System Engineer, Tech Mahindra Limited
9 years ago

First of all battery life depend on two major things "period as well as uses".   1.) About Period : Normally we have seen during1st year of purchase most of the ... See More

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Answer added by  Sunil Dutt, Computers Repair Technician, JMK Computers
10 years ago

Good questions , i i thing Ubuntu Save more than outher opreting System battery life bcz all application work smoothly

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Answer added by  Clarence Edward, Senior System Engineer, F-Secure Corporation
10 years ago

Im using Lubuntu , an LXDE based Ubuntu distro for my netbook. Gave me superb battery life, over3 hours of movie, quite good for1st generation netbook. I could barely get ... See More