Linux has a lot of advantages, but long battery life on a laptop isn’t usually one of them.
Manufacturers optimize their device drivers to work best on Windows, and while a laptop may perform just as well with Linux as on Windows, it will often eat through the battery more quickly. New versions of the Linux kernel have improved power-saving this in the past and hopefully will in the future, but here’s how you can get longer battery life today.
Read more at PC World.
