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Energy-efficient distro recommendations? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by staircase@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Which distros are energy efficient? I have a capable desktop, and I mean to push it, but I don't want to be using energy if it's not necessary. I'm not looking to rescue an old laptop, for example.

I hear CachyOS is fast. Does that translate to energy efficient?

(Does the OS even matter that much for efficiency?)

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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Nobody was really answering, but steamos makes tweaking the effeciency easy. It should be like the steam deck where you can tweak the tdp limit for the cpu and setting clock speed for the gpu. I believe this currently only works with amd cpu/gpu, but I believe they're working with nvidia.