Will installing arch on a chromebook with only cli save battery

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>>59564272
No, it won't save the battery at all. Expect to get 50% of the battery life if you're using Arch instead of ChromeOS

ChomeOS is a Gentoo descended distro that's been optimized to run on Chromebooks by actual engineers

Arch doesn't have any optimizations in the kernel or in userspace. Your meme OS just ships without any packages, which has nothing to do with battery

It'll save you a little bit of battery life from not having to run X but you might as well install X anyways and just launch it only when you need it. Most of your power savings will be from laptopmodetools and thermald

The native chrome os is probably heavily optomized though, so your savings will be minimal

also get fucked this is a stupid question

>>59565348
>>59564272
Without a lot of kernel tuning (and hardcore use of some obscure stuff in systemd), you won't get good battery life, at all.

You can try installing powertop, and that's great, but it won't get you close to ChromeOS

>>59564272
It might, idk

>>59565579
Why the fuck did you reply then?

>>59564272
sure.

if you are ok with 100nit brightness you can get like 16-18hr

>all these dipshit

it's literally easy as fuck
laptop-mode-tools does half the shit for you

the only hard thing you have to do is set the appropriate arguments to the ath9k kmodule to make it not rekt your battery.

>>59565360
>The native chrome os is probably heavily optomized though, so your savings will be minimal

no, it really isn't.
you get maybe like 6-8 if you're lucky.

you can get that with some generic base install of ubuntu or fedora.

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proof to any of the dipshits who don't know what they are talking about.

>>59566160

nice

know of a guide to battery ricing a lubuntu install?

>>59566361
restart X at least once.

if battery life seems wrong, restart X

virtually all my battery problems appear to stem from some weird ass Xorg bullshit. I imagine it has something to do with input devices and how Xorg is owning thme but i can't prove it and make any substantial bug report.

other useful things:

xset s off -dpms

don't let your screen blank off ever, this somehow triggers the problem as well.
suspend is ok however. just don't let X blank the display.
other than that. laptop mode tools, probably powertop as well

get use to 100 nit (about 20-30%) display brightness, honestly it makes it easy on the eyes and saves a crapload of battery.

make sure to set /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf

with the text:
options ath9k btcoex_enable=1 ps_enable=1 bt_ant_diversity=1

note all of this assumes you have an Acer C720.

I'm not aware of other chrombooks and weird quarks

Also Xorg is literally shit.

if anyone has advice on debugging Xorg bullshit like this, let me know. I'd more than love to fix this issue.

>>59565579
When you don't understand how questions work

>>59564272
Galliumos

>>59567083
Not a bad idea desu