<div><div dir="auto">Power management is on the roadmap for the 18.10 Ubuntu release, which started the discussion on slashdot about power on Linux. Apparently no one has focused on it apart from maybe fedora (citation pending).</div></div><div dir="auto">I remember reading that there’s a lot to be done with GPU switching, HDD power saving, and some chipset features.</div><div dir="auto">I live in hope :)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 21:52, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester <<a href="mailto:colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk">colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I'm on a laptop now with Mint but I assumed the battery was
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<div class="m_-6613698292057742114moz-cite-prefix">On 03/09/18 21:48, James Pain via
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<div dir="auto">Long time lurker. I’m always here. Linux server
admin. I’ve been waiting for a distro to take laptop power
management seriously. I long for the day when battery life on
Linux is similar to windows.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 21:25, Wayland Sothcott
via Colchester <<a href="mailto:colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>>
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It seems like a good time to reactivate our LUG.<br>
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On 03/09/18 21:09, Ian Snow via Colchester wrote:<br>
> On Monday, 3 September 2018 19:17:21 BST Wayland
Sothcott via Colchester<br>
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>> Please reply if you're receiving this.<br>
>> It seems to me like everyone else was GDPR'd off
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>> Regards,<br>
>> Wayland.<br>
> Yes received, kind of best have seeing as I'm the list
admin apparently<br>
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> Ian<br>
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