Is it just me or is Ubuntu power consumption really poor?
It's not because of that Linux is sponsored by basically every major corporation in the tech land if you look at the Linux foundation sponsors page, it's more a userland problem.
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There's kernel stuff too -- coalescing wakes to put the CPU to sleep longer, for example. Considering the folks sponsoring Linux are mostly in sever land they probably don't care. Features Linux supports like nanosecond resolution sleep are actively harmful to power.
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Userland is a part of it; the test I care about here is YouTube or Twitch video playback in the browser, all the distros come with Firefox, and video playback has always been FF's Achilles heel
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The way I see it Linux is a kernel that many distribution use as a base the Android distribution just paid more attention to power management.
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Literally every major corporation sponsors them ...
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