Consumption of different distros
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Someone has measured the power consumed by their PC for different distros and made a ranking. It is a very specific comparison for the hardware of the person who did this (who is also unknown), but it gives an idea of the differences between desktop environments and other software components.
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The comparison is a bit weak. It doesn't indicate how it measured the power, what equipment it has, or anything. In the comments it seems to say that it uses powertop. I can't think of a worse way to measure power, that leaves out half the hardware. It's also not the same to have an Nvidia, Amd or Intel gpu. And within those three there is also a difference between generations and drivers. It should have specified the hardware details, the version of the drivers and have used a physical wattmeter that measures the power of the complete equipment. And to make it complete, it should have done a full cycle to the battery with each distro and measured the time it takes to discharge.
