Laptop gets hot and has only few hours battery life with new 9cell battery, have TLP installed.
Anyone here ricing x200?
Screen brightness to lowest, use the cpu as little as possible and set it to power saving mode
Don't use trisquel because because battery life 80% depends on firmware and libre firmware doesn't have those hacks.
>>62296404
I get 6 hours or so out of an OG battery, no TLP or anything.
Running slack with awesome WM though, so ymmv.
I get close to 3 hours without TLP, but I also have a 965M and i7-4870HQ in there.
>>62296404
run a decent distro instead of sucking stallman's cock
>>62296850
What he said, OP.
Try Suse, Fedora or Slack, all good choices.
If you wanna go the *Buntu route just stick to the LTS ones instead of the bugfests that are the normal releases.
>>62296870
Unfortunately, you can't get proper power management on most machines without the required proprietary firmware.
>>62296404
install devuan
install pandora
>>62296404
I get 4-5 hours of battery with tlp, although this battery is pretty old.
I love the shit out of this laptop, it's just gets everything I want done :^)
>>62296850
Call me when the devs stop being dicks and invent an installation wizard, the arch wiki is awesome but I'm not going to spend an evening piecing together an OS.
That said, are Antergos and Manjaro any good?
Manjaro team is tiny and did some really stupid stuff, don't know about Antergos.
Why does it take yet ANOTHER group of people to improve a larger distro.