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battery life on notebooks and laptops

running Linux has always been a Hot

Topic many tell you that running Linux

has increase their battery life others

tell you it's the same and some say it's

just horrible no matter in which

category you fall with your own personal

device there's an easy way how you can

drastically improve battery performance

and I'm going to show it to you spoiler

alert if this method doesn't help on

your system then you might want to

continue watching or all right so the

first thing that we need to do is to

install a package called TLP for those

of you who don't know it TLP is a highly

customizable optimization tool

specifically designed to increase

battery life by dynamically adjusting

power settings and interacting with your

Hardware it also supports different

profiles depending on if your laptop is

plugged in or running off its battery in

order to install TLP we unfortunately

need to use the command line but no

worries just follow my steps I first

recommend you to look up if TLP is

available on your Linux distribution and

how the package is exactly called on

Fedora and its derivatives we can do

this with sudu dnf search TLP It's

usually the one that matches the closest

to what we typed so let's go ahead and

install it with sudu dnf install TLP

let's accept the prompts and it's

already installed in order for it to

work however we need to start it let's

type sudu TLP start as we can see as it

starts running it automatically detects

in which power mode we are in my case

wired and it also applies default

settings which are already optimized

however there are also a few errors the

first one means the TLP won't start

automatically after a reboot let's fix

that by copying the given command and

run it with sudu now TLP will run

automatically as soon soon as you

restart your PC the other errors are

typically coming from conflict with

other power settings that are in place

by either your Linux distribution or

desktop environment this might not be a

problem but it's best to let TLP do its

job without any further parties in the

mix so again let's execute the shown

commands with sudu to verify we can run

TLP start again and we now see that all

errors are gone if we type sudu TLP stat

we can also see all the optimizations

that are currently set at the top we

have the default configuration beneath

we have our system details the state of

TLP as well as the mode it's currently

running in there is also an application

there called tp- RDW which is currently

disabled this is another program that

can be installed via the terminal and is

used to better interact with your radio

devices AKA Wi-Fi Bluetooth NFC Etc

basically everything that allows your

device to connect to either another one

or the internet and I recommend you to

install it as well if we scroll further

down then we might also see some package

recommendations which further extend

tp's capabilities let's install this

package as well since it allows us to

get more information about our battery

which in return helps to optimize it

once everything is installed you're

basically done and your Linux laptop

should now be able to last way longer

but there's one thing about TLP that

annoys me and I don't know why it has

happened on every single device I've

installed it on whenever I boot my PC

Bluetooth is enabled every time so let's

fix it shall we what you want to do is

to open up a file browser of your choice

open up your main drive and the Etsy

directory search for a file called TLP

docon and open it what we're looking for

is a setting called devices to disable

on Startup let's remove the hashtag to

set it active and only leave in the

devices you want to disable in my case

Bluetooth and save it and now Bluetooth

is no longer enabled by default when you

start up your system all right that was

TLP for me personally the best method to

increase battery life I use it on any

old laptop I have as well as on my

Microsoft Surface and it really helps

getting my battery live up to its

advertised values which was cut in half

initially but to be fair I was watching

a bunch of videos which drain the

battery quite a lot oh that reminds me

check your drivers if you have a laptop

with an AMD GPU or more precise with an

AMD Apu then you generally don't have to

worry since all the codecs and drivers

are usually installed by default on

Intel however I discovered that not

every Linux drro installs all Hardware

acceleration dependencies by default

which can drain the battery if you watch

a lot of videos to check if that's the

case for you you can install VA info

which shows you if Hardware acceleration

is working on your system sometimes it's

coming within another package so it's

best to again search for it on my

Surface for example running VA info just

returns a bunch of Errors so we need to

install the corresponding V Hardware

acceleration package which can be found

with our package manager search

functionality after the installation we

now see that it's working and yeah I'm

not going to cover Nvidia since the

proprietary driver should come with

everything by default anyway okay but

what if you install TLP all of its

recommended packages and verify that

Hardware acceleration is indeed working

but your device still has poor battery

life well you could go down the rabbit

hole and configure every single thing

about TLP or you could also try another

solution called Auto CPU freak it is

another battery optimization tool though

it currently mostly focuses on just

optimizing the CPU which to be fair is

usually the most power hungry thing in a

laptop it is not recommended to run in

combination with TLP as some settings

could cause some problems so you have to

remove one from your system the

installation itself is quite easy though

if you're on yuntu then you can get it

straight from the store and on other

disc rows you just need to copy these

two lines into a terminal if you want

Auto CPU freak to always run into the

background like TLP does you can install

it with autoc CPU freak install and it

actually works pretty well it also comes

with a neat little guey that shows you

some statistics about your CPU load and

you can also manually change the power

profiles kind of neat the reason on why

I don't use it personally is that on my

devices DLP always yielded better

results due to it just considering more

optimizations but Auto CPU freak is also

on a good way and might even be better

on some devices one thing that I'd like

to mention though is that some in the

online community say that auto CPU freak

is better because it supports turbo

boost for power applications it even

says so on their GitHub page but this is

a misconception as TLP also supports it

so now you know all right before we

finish this video off I think we should

answer the question why don't Linux

distributions come with tools like TLP

by default well the answer is quite

simple compatibility as I mentioned

earlier TLP can't always increase

battery life and can actually decrease

it if not configured properly the thing

is its default configuration is

generally good and you usually don't

have to touch anything but it can cover

every single device especially more

recent Hardware with new power saving

options it's not even recommended for my

Surface though I never encountered any

issues personally but that's why Linux

distributions don't come with it by

default if you however buy a laptop that

comes with Linux pre-installed maybe

even a custom version of it as well you

generally get all those optimizations

anyway and you might not even need TLP

at all if you do then you now know how

to increase its battery life and that's

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now is good morning good afternoon or

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you around