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Well Torvalds was only one guy for the first couple years.
Well Torvalds was only one guy for the first couple years.
Well like any distro it’s not just the desktop environment (Gnome) but follows an opinionated setup and design. There’s bundled packages, design tweaks to the DE, config changes to packaged software, different default apps and repos for the base OS (Debian in this case) and other tweaks. Link below should explain this all in more depth.
I think proxmox or qemu might interest you https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Performance_Tweaks#Disk_Cache
Qemu https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Performance_Tweaks#Disk_Cache
Even the surface book 3 with it’s two batteries only got 7 hours for me with use.
It’s all about the TDP of the chip, pixel density and refresh rate of the screen and battery capacity.
Recipe for long battery life is low power CPU, lower resolution (HD vs UHD) screen, no touch input, bigger battery.
Tablets don’t usually follow that recipe.
Glances?
Yes, however he toiled for a while on his own before release when he was still at university, that’s the time period I’m referencing.