Hello people, Can you please provide the average battery life you’re getting on linux alongside your framework model, your distro and usage? I’m 100% sure the fw 13 will be my next compute but I’ve seen a lot of difference between the battery life people are getting, so I want to see if there’s a pattern.
2-4 hours for me on Fedora (AMD). This is with media consumption (video mainly) and I haven’t tested it for productivity yet cause uni is on break. I’ve been trouble shooting this to try and get better performance because I have a feeling Flatpaks may not be as optimised for hardware acceleration. For the most part though, general web browsing and whatnot does not seem to hit the battery at at all really.
Nah that’s normal, watching video just consumes a lot of battery
6-9 hours, AMD, Fedora, software development/internet browsing
I get 5 hours out of mine with some heavier loads throughout the day. And 8 hours if I just browse, write down notes or read stuff. I’m using Fedora 39
11th gen i7 for software development and I get at least 6-8 hours with battery set to charge to 80%. Using Pop!_OS. I keep my brightness down, but it’s more than bright enough even with sun streaming in the house. I’m definitely considering an upgrade to AMD.
Excessive video calls make it closer to 6 hours, and closer to 8 with software dev.
Intel i7 12th Gen on Fedora, I get around 4-6h using VS Code and Firefox.
FW13 AMD and Debian Bookworm gives 3-5 hours, but I’m almost exclusively tooling around with GNUradio and so on, so don’t for a moment consider that to be a realistic figure for “normal” use.