I have been told Linux is more environmentally friendly and that was a total lie. I have tried absolutely everything and even so i have a battery discharge rate of 20W while idling while Windows gets as low as 10W in the same conditions.
Failed ideas:
- Disable Nvidia drivers completely
- Backlight? USB devices? Bluetooth? Wifi? no significant difference
- Refresh rate? I mean, kinda, but not a big diff at all
- Install auto-cpufreq and WOOO magic 3x increase! No, nothing happened, i almost think it ran worse.
- Integrated graphics is using PSR? Yes.
- Wayland fault? No, same story on X11.
- Window managers fault? Nope. I get 20W even inside a TTY.
- NVMe not going into low power mode? Actually possible. They do support it, but it seems Debian Trixie's kernel was compiled without it for some reason?
- Theres a billion PCI devices in powertop? Yes, but thats how it should be for the computer to run.