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I came to assume the battery only exists to act as an uninterruptible power supply as I travel to the next power outlet ;)

It feels like over the past 10y Linux only went from 2h to 3h of battery life. While MacBook went from 3h to 13h.

>>bombel+(OP)
You’re comparing an OS with a specific device. In the union case (Asahi Linux on MacBook), the battery life is much higher than 3h. Not yet 13, but soon should be close.

>>bombel+(OP)
This is what i experienced as well. 3h on light battery use. After having read every how-tos and used tlp, auto-cpufreq, powertop, ...

I hate to say it, but, for me, it is the price to pay to not have to deal with Windows anymore. I'm on Ubuntu right now, but have tried with other distros in the past. YMMV.

>>captn3+f5
Let's hope it will be close. MacBook has twice the battery capacity as a run of the mill thinkpad. So 6h of battery would be the default I expect. More than that, and I will be impressed.

Note that I have been using Linux for 20y. And I fully accept the short battery life in exchange of the tooling and freedom I get with Linux.

>>bombel+(OP)
Battery life of hackintoshes never was that impressive or was it? But if you want apples to oranges instead, then even in its very basic, hacky state linux on that macbook gets 8-10 hours:

https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1500039345142923269?la...

>>diffeo+2b2
That's pretty good indeed! I don't like the keyboard layout (I want my delete key!). But that's a minor inconvenience compared to how good the machine appears to run Linux.