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Laptop battery life drastically decreased compared to Windows 7 [duplicate]
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Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows?
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Studio XPS 1640 and have about one hour of battery life in it, ...
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Battery life decreased after upgrade to 11.04 [duplicate]
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Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows?
After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10, my battery life has decreased dramatically.
There was a bug in ...
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Laptop battery drains faster in Ubuntu 16.04 when compared to other OS [duplicate]
The battery backup of my Lenovo G50-45 laptop is very low of around 3hrs on full charge.
This was approximately double when I was working with Windows 8.1. Can you please suggest the possible fixes ...
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Why does battery power drain quicker in Ubuntu compared to WIndows in Dell Inspiron? [duplicate]
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Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows?
When I used Windows 7 with Dell Inspiron, I got a battery life of 2 hours. But ever since I ...
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Why does my laptop overheat and discharge faster in Ubuntu than Windows? [duplicate]
I am new to Linux. I have a Dell Inspiron 15 with a 1st generation Intel Core i3 and Ubuntu 12.10.
My laptop gets heated quickly which doesn't happen on Windows. Also the battery is discharged faster ...
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Battery on Ubuntu 12.10 is less compared to win7! [duplicate]
I installed ubuntu 12.10 alongside win7 ultimate on my lenovo ultrabook U410, but the problem is I get 6 hours with win7 while only 3.30 hours on Ubuntu. I installed PowerTop but It does not provide ...
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My battery drains really fast and my laptop gets really hot, What do I do? [duplicate]
I just installed Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv6-6c50ca, and I noticed that every time that I start my laptop with Ubuntu the fan runs really fast and the laptop produces a lot of heat. When I run ...
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How to fix overheating and battery low life on ASUS K56CM? [duplicate]
I have an ASUS K56CM ubuntu 12.04 runs well, but the temperature in idle is about 55-65 °C. And also my battery have a half less life then on windows7. I tried Jupiter but it doesn't work. Should I ...
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Laptop battery doesn't last that long compared to Windows [duplicate]
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Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome 3.6 on a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop, but I have a problem with ...
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why does Ubuntu on my hp pavilion laptop's battery is draining very fast? [duplicate]
i have install ubuntu 14.04 on my hp pavilion laptop
initially when i was using windows 8.1 my battery use to be 2.30 hours to 3.00 hours
but when i installed ubuntu 14.04 it started draining very ...
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how to power save and lookup power usage in terminal [duplicate]
I have already installed powertop , pm-utils , laptop-mode-tool , jupitor , also power save with jupitor , cpu-frequency skilling powersave , pm-powersave true but power usage are 1 hour and 20 ...
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Does Ubuntu reduce battery life? [duplicate]
In this this page of the Ubuntu help it says that using Ubuntu reduces battery life than compared to using Mac/Windows. What does that exactly mean? Does "battery life" mean here the number of hours ...
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Is there a power saving application similar to Jupiter?
I'm trying to install the Jupiter power settings app but, I read it is no longer compatible with the new kernel. Is there a similar program or a way to manage the power settings on 13.04?
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USB mouse cuts out on battery power
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit laptop, and I have a Microsoft mouse. When I'm on the battery power the mouse cuts in and out, I have full battery power so it's not because of low power. It never does ...
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Does Ubuntu rapidly decrease the lifespan of my battery?
Okay this seems very silly but i feel like Ubuntu is just destroying the battery of my PC. It started about an year ago when i switched to Ubuntu, within 1-2 months the battery died. It was working ...