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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 7 months ago (4 children)

power-profiles-daemon is used by GNOME and KDE yet the article reads as if this was ubuntu only.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a non unbuntonion it did make me go "omg, wtf?"

I thought the whole point of these debian variants was to add useful stuff like that - faster then debian.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

It's an article about Ubuntu 24.04 on an Ubuntu-centric blog. It's looking at that particular OS and whatever the OS uses. It doesn't use KDE and it doesn't use vanilla GNOME. As an Ubuntu 22.04 user who's considering upgrading to 24.04 and is curious what's in it, the fact that PPD is used elsewhere is a mere coincidence. 😊

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Fedora uses that since forever and will even switch away from it in half a year or so, to tuned.

But a users reported way better batterylife on Ubuntu than on Fedora. So maybe they do something better?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

what are they switching to?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i get its parts of the systemd suite but thats such a stupid name lmao, seo on that is garbage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

tuneD is a daemon, systemD is the init daemon that is the first process to start. Not the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i know, but its the same branding i mean

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah for sure. That can go to

  • GIMP
  • LibreOffice (vs. OpenOffice)
  • OpenSuse

and other projects with dumb names

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I'm pretty sure this has been in debian for a while now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Good change. Balanced mode being battery-unaware prior to this isn't ideal.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Still far from ideal, though. My 2017 MacBook Air with a severely degraded battery lasts 4 hours on macOS, but only 2.5h on Ubuntu 24.04 using the power saving profile - and that's with less intensive usage, as macOS keeps rendering gaussian blurs everywhere and launchpad and spotlight and all those annoying services.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well this change can't improve anything about Power Saver. It only affects Balanced which now should be a bit less of a gas guzzler.

And yes, even the most aggressive power saving we have at the moment isn't anything to write home about. If we paid 10 developers to hunt down power drain issues and submit fixes for a few years we may get closer to macOS. 😂

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The great irony is, when I ran Windows native on those Intel Macbooks, I was getting better battery and performance than with macOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not sure why your comment was downvoted, you're actually correct, Windows is got better battery life. The only reason I'm not running it on this MacBook is an unpatched bug in the Intel HD Graphics driver that prevents it from working with newer Windows versions on MacBooks with this specific display adapter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Breh, I thought they had a new battery saving technology breakthrough. Lol Power profiles daemon? So they didn't have it in the distro before?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Would be great if we could see a benchmark vs auto-cpufreq.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Finally 30 full minutes!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

Fake news….