Kaby Lake battery life on Linux

>>59719934
I N S T A L L
G E N T O O

Just kidding. Gentoo is for script kiddies. Real programmers use lightweight power distros like Arch Linux.

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>>59719934
The first thing you should do when you receive it is kill yourself for buying chinkshit garbage over a new 15.4" MBP.

>>59719934
>linux
>battery life

lmao

just lmao.

>>59719966
Gentoo/Arch/timeWasteOS is last resort if Ubuntu 16.04/17.04 suck battery

>>59719996
I'm using the new MBP right now (work laptop). Can't justify the price for a home laptop, especially with ddr5 memory around the corner.

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I've been using Ubuntu 16.04 with Gnome 3 on my Kaby Lake ZenBook for about a month now.

Everything works out of the box, battery life is fine. Only issue I've encountered so far is occasionally the wifi is not working properly after waking it up from sleeping, but thats easily fixed with

systemctl restart network-manager.service

>>59719934
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>59720203
Thanks man. How many hours battery life are you getting with casual web browsing?

>>59720375
Four, maybe five on a good day.

>>59720375
6-7 hours. Mine doesn't have a QHD screen though.

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>>59719966
> Real programmers use lightweight power distros like Arch Linux.

I mean most people use the platform they're developing for to develop on. I guess linux is good for Web Development simple because it's a great desktop environment to work in but I'm not gonna reboot to change os just to work on some backend for a windows desktop application

>>59719934
you can install newer kernels on ubuntu
there are even prebuilt packages at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
just be aware that apt won't autoupdate any kernel that isn't the default one so there is a security risk

>>59719966
Gonna need a bigger bait

>>59719934
Anyone looking at this thread and wondering the same as OP:
For Kaby Lake you definitely would want to use a new kernel.
You'll get to use the hardware much more efficiently.
Older kernels like the one Ubuntu 16.04 uses is just not updated enough for all to the new hardware functionality Kaby Lake brings.

And if you really want to exploit the power of this architecture then you should recompile your most critical software with the compiler flag:

 -march=native -O2 -mfpmath=sse 

Multimedia will benefit the most from it because it will use the cpu more efficiently without activating all those cores and potentially saving battery life. I would recommend -O3 instead of -O2 for multimedia libraries and programs...

And get the linux-ck kernel which comes patch with a bunch of cool shit that makes the system not suck when it's trying to save battery life.

This is why sometimes installing Gentoo or Arch or Slackware really is better because it makes it easier to customize your machine to run better on new hardware...it just isn't easy unfortunately.

>>59720375
I have the fully specced x1 carbon 5th gen and i get up to like 10 hours of casual use on 16.10