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Why does Ubuntu eat more power than Windows?
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I play full screen video with maximum volume or browse the Web with Wi-Fi. Under Windows 7 my laptop works ~5 hours. Under Kubuntu 10.10 only ~2 hours. I've got an Acer Aspire 1810TZ. Battery wear degree 90%. Installed: acpid acpi-support pm-utils upower Not installed: laptop-mode-tools I like Linu…
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All the hardware in your computer has drivers specifically designed for Windows and not for Linux. This happens for obvious reasons: Windows has 90% market share and Linux less than 1%. It's hard to convince a hardware manufacture to spend money dev…
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