Which provides longer battery life: Linux Mint or Ubuntu?

Question

I keep figuring out some differences between Linux Mint and Ubuntu. One thing that I wonder, is the battery life. Will the batter life last longer on Linux Mint or Ubuntu with general use? I read that Linux Mint is faster (and runs easier on older systems). I would assume since it runs a bit easier, that it would provide a longer battery life. My battery lasts up to 9 hours, so while I'm testing this myself, I would like to receive feedback from others. So far Ubuntu shows the batter will run down a bit faster than Linux Mint.

Answer 1

Mint inherits the same kernel Ubuntu uses in any given release, so any new power-saving improvements should also be consistent between them.



The Mint team put a lot of work into fixing bugs in Cinnamon and it's window manager Muffin for the Mint 14 release, while Ubuntu's Compiz window manager remains infamous as a resource hog. Ubuntu also runs various background processes like the Ubuntu One daemon that Mint doesn't include, but the power drain of these services is probably marginal. All things considered, I'd expect battery life to be relatively consistent between the two, with the efficiency of their 3D compositing managers making the most difference in Mint outperforming Ubuntu.



Of course, if you run Linux Mint with MATE rather than Cinnamon, there might be a significant difference to be measured given MATE's low system resource overhead. But I assume you're trying to keep this apples-to-apples.

Answer 2

Ubuntu Battery Life

Answer 3

What you do in any operating system determines the battery life, it is not the operating system itself that affects this. Mint Linux is a Remaster of Ubuntu and uses the same repository file system for software, hardware and programs. It is just a name given to that Distribution and nothing more than that.

Answer 4

mint follow ubuntu what ubuntu do mint do, for some one that tests every Linux that's been released for the past 2 years i would tell you to go for a lite distribution release,

Linux Lite= 720MB this is a fast system, i have it installed on a flash/jump drive to demonstrate

Zorin Lite=641 MB again this system is fast i have it installed on a flash/jump drive to demonstrate

Puppy Linux = 162MB

you can check all these out here

http://distrowatch.com