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Best Distro for Laptops?
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Arch is a barebones distro so it makes sense that you have one of the best battery life.
My old 2012 dell laptop is running Arch and so far : the battery which has been used extensively boasts ~2:30 of uptime (on KDE, no less!) compared to Win10 which has only ~1:25 or Fedora which gives me a meager ~1:15.
I cannot tell for OpenSuse because for whatever reason I can't even boot it on this PC. It was my main go-to distro before 2012.
Debian is also solid. I get almost ~2h of uptime.
I have also used Zorin OS which is nice but rather slow on older hardwares.
So overall go for Arch (again), Debian or take a wild guess at NixOS.
There can be a lot of trial and error figuring out the best way to deal with power management, fans etc on Arch.