I have it installed on HDD, on a Lenovo Ideapad 3 gaming laptop, with a nvidia GTX 1650 Ti. I have windows installed, but it’s on SSD, so it probably doesn’t affect.
The battery life is not so good.
- I have the proprietary nvidia drivers installed. In nvidia settings, I’ve set it to be in adaptive mode to save energy.
- I’ve installed suse-prime and set it to offload. Setting it to intel doesn’t get me to the graphical interface. Is there a way to fix that?
- I use kde plasma and the effects and animations are turned off. I have disabled the cups.service, file indexing and other things I normally don’t use.
- Autocpufreq is installed and tlp is not.
- I’ve also set noatime for root and home.
- My screen brightness and sleep settings are kept low and I normally don’t use more than 20% and at night only less than 5%.
I only get around an hour to 1.5 hrs of battery time on average. Are there ways to improve that?
Also my current boot time is around a minute to 1.5 minutes. Is it ok for hdd? Or are there things that I could easily try to speed it a bit more?
Thank you, for reading all this.
The most obvious solution to boot time is change the HDD to an SSD. Boot time of 90 seconds seems in the ballpark for a HDD. Disk drives are slow. An SSD should also improve battery life slightly. Though, such a short battery life, like that which you described, would point to a failing battery unit. Though, that’s just speculation.
Thank you.
The battery life is quite decent on windows; gives around 5 hours in the case of active use.
And sorry, I’ve made an edit. Not an hour and less. An hour and more. 1.5 hours on average.
