Windows always seems to be running something in the background, either Defender updates or telemetry, so Linux should be much better once the updates have finished.
Big-Finding2976
joined 1 year ago
Yeah, running it without the battery (if that works, I don't think it does with all laptops) is safer but that loses the advantage of having the battery backup, and if you can't leave it running 24/7 that rather limits what you can use it for.
I've got a smart plug that measures the power used, so I'll see what that shows.
I just reinstalled Linux Mint on the whole drive and even with that it uses 60-80% of the CPU when updating. Synaptic used about 40%, right now two instances of rsync are using about 40% between them, dpkg sometimes uses 30-43%, so I'm not surprised that Windows with all its background processes and telemetry would use more.
Yeah, it's not great. My RPi with an SSD and 6 USB HDDs is only drawing 45W, and about 30W of that is the HDDs.
I'll check what my M700 draws later.