I've been looking for a while to find ways to increase the battery life of my computer ever since I got UM 18.04. I just learned about and installed PowerTOP and learned I can change different hardware settings to enable better power management by the computer. I don't know what all the changes I can make mean and was wondering if someone can point out if these changes I can make from Bad to Good will adversely affect my computer or not.
Thanks for your help
Have you heard of TLP? It’s basically automatic and has worked well for me.
I did try that once but didn’t know how to properly use it. How do you go about using it?
You just install it, and it does its optimizations automatically. There are config files you can edit to change things if needed, but the main idea is that it does it with any input needed.
Well that’s much easier than I made it out to be the first time I tried it. It’s already making my battery life better!
