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0 pointsvletal4y ago0 comments

I'm curious about the power efficiency. From all my experience, all laptops I had usually drained battery much faster on Linux than on Windows. And these were very standard mainstream machines. M1 is a proprietary CPU which requires reverse engineering to even make OS running. I wonder how close to "native" is the Linux going to get.

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chippiewill4y ago

I doubt the CPU itself will be that much trouble, it's still mostly an ARM CPU.

Power draw problems usually arise because the drivers are half baked and don't know how to turn the peripherals off when they're not being used.

It might not be native power efficiency, but if non-M1 Mac linux experience is anything to go by then it's still plausible that it can run circles around x86 based laptops with good Linux driver support.

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chippiewill4y ago

I doubt the CPU itself will be that much trouble, it's still mostly an ARM CPU.

Power draw problems usually arise because the drivers are half baked and don't know how to turn the peripherals off when they're not being used.

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