Hello people, Can you please provide the average battery life you’re getting on linux alongside your framework model, your distro and usage? I’m 100% sure the fw 13 will be my next compute but I’ve seen a lot of difference between the battery life people are getting, so I want to see if there’s a pattern.
Somewhere around 7-8 hours.
My use case is probably closest to a software engineer who doesn’t compile crazy stuff. A bunch of browser tabs, discord, zulip, and other chat services open, a terminal and VSC always open, with some quick compiling here and there.
I’m on OpenSUSE with GNOME and use TLP.
edit: I have the i5 1240p model
Thanks for the edit, that’s part of why I decided to get one finally is the AMD is supposed to get like 12hrs from what I’ve read.
2-4 hours for me on Fedora (AMD). This is with media consumption (video mainly) and I haven’t tested it for productivity yet cause uni is on break. I’ve been trouble shooting this to try and get better performance because I have a feeling Flatpaks may not be as optimised for hardware acceleration. For the most part though, general web browsing and whatnot does not seem to hit the battery at at all really.
Nah that’s normal, watching video just consumes a lot of battery
I have a similar issue, so I looked and it also happens on 7840U Thinkpads, so apparently video acceleration isn’t quite optimized yet on Linux for the 7040 CPUs. Hopefully future kernel versions solve this.
I see the same pattern on my AMD with Linux outside of flatpaks (battery usage for text editing is good, but for videos it’s not great), so flatpaks are probably not the problem. I guess the GPU uses too much energy when decoding video - hopefully this is a driver problem and not how the hardware is inherently.
Using Linux Mint and a 1340p with 55wh battery. Im at max 80% battery but i can use it for around 6 hours. I guess its 8 hours at full battery and Low to Medium usage. Mostly Office work
I have the 11th gen Intel with a 55Wh battery, it’s about 4 hours with normal browser tabs, discord and maybe musescore open. I can sqeeze a bit more out of it when I put the brightness on minimal but I don’t like doing that during the day
There are a ton of variables.
- AMD vs Intel?
- Tasks used? Video will drain it quickly, writing/browsing/etc with the recommended power settings will be good. For example.
6-9 hours, AMD, Fedora, software development/internet browsing
I get 5 hours out of mine with some heavier loads throughout the day. And 8 hours if I just browse, write down notes or read stuff. I’m using Fedora 39
11th gen i7 for software development and I get at least 6-8 hours with battery set to charge to 80%. Using Pop!_OS. I keep my brightness down, but it’s more than bright enough even with sun streaming in the house. I’m definitely considering an upgrade to AMD.
Excessive video calls make it closer to 6 hours, and closer to 8 with software dev.
Do you tune anything to reach that longevity? That’s impressive
FW13 AMD and Debian Bookworm gives 3-5 hours, but I’m almost exclusively tooling around with GNUradio and so on, so don’t for a moment consider that to be a realistic figure for “normal” use.
Intel i7 12th Gen on Fedora, I get around 4-6h using VS Code and Firefox.
Framework 13 with i7–1165G7 Pop_OS, screen brightness 50 % to 100 %, power Consumption:
- Light use (browsing, PDF reading, coding, E-Mail): 7 to 8 W (7 to 8 hours)
- Video Streaming: 10 W (5 hours)