Power consumption; Ubuntu on laptop.

[luciusad2004]

Anyone here have any trouble running Ubuntu (or any Linux) on a laptop? I find that i can leave my laptop plugged in all day and it doesn't seem to take a full charge. The battery also doesn't last terribly long. Now i did purchase the laptop used so it's possible that the battery is just on it's last legs but i don't recall having as much of a battery problem with windows.

[xr4man]

the only problems i ever had were when there wasn't as good of power management in linux and it wouldn't dim the screen and stuff like that. i think newer versions are better about it though.

[luciusad2004]

Yeah, it does seem to have most of the necessary power management features. I googled for power issues a couple weeks ago and there was supposedly a bug in Ubunut 10 or maybe 11.04 but that was supposed to be taken care of with 11.10.

Maybe it's my battery. I do leave it on the charger all day, probalby burnt out my battery by now.

[AmEv]

Yeah, it's most likely due to leaving the battery plugged in.