Comment on Is it normal that my OLED discharges 20% per day in standby?
Bumrocky@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s the stanby/quick restart that’s doing it. It’s literally staying on. Best to use the power/shut down option in the menu vs just hitting the power button. Same was happening to me before I figured it out.
TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Thanks for that. I’ve been thinking of it as a sleep/hibernate function but obviously it’s not. Linux still hasn’t seemed to figure that one out for some reason. Not Steam’s fault.
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Linux has a hibernate function, but the power button activates Sleep, which is higher-consumption. There may be a way to set it to actually hibernate on button press, but I’ve only seen Hibernation via Desktop Mode.
Sleep = keep processes in memory = more power consumption.
Hibernation = write most processes to disk and keep only vital system processes in memory = less power consumption.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
At some point SteamOS has major issues crashing when waking up from hibernation, which is probably why it hasn’t been added as an option. Which is annoying, because if you run out of battery, the deck just dies. At the very least, it should force-hibernate itself before dying.
TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This kinda describes where Linux has been at with sleep/hibernation for quite a few years. I don’t understand the deeper implications but it’s never seemed like a priority for Linux devs, vs how Windows and Mac have solved it long ago. Maybe because Linux hasn’t traditionally focused on portable devices but arm (etc) seems to be changing that.
TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This is good intel actually. I used HoloISO for a long time on my gaming rig but I never thought to mess around with those settings because I’ve always just thought of Linux battery use as ass (have run various distros on tons of different laptops as well). Would be good to take the deck deeper hibernation settings for a spin, but it would be kinda a shame if the deck devs haven’t already explored these things in ways I’ll never understand as a lay user, frankly. You’d think they’d be tweaking this stuff mercilessly for the UX and battery life.
EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Try putting a laptop running Windows to sleep for a week and see if it has any battery left.