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?)
OS matters, linux is probably the most efficient. The distribution matters less. But it also depends on what you want to do. Use it as a desktop?
As others have said, disable services you don’t need, close programs you aren’t using.
Actually that does make me think, there might be distros that automatically clean up unused programs and turn down the frequency of the CPU when it’s not in use. Haven’t done a thorough search though.
Turn down the frequency
Kernel already does.
Clean up unused programs
??? So it would close my IRC client when I look away? Fuck that.
Kernel already does.
Depends on which governor you have active
??? So it would close my IRC client when I look away? Fuck that.
Don’t be daft. Look at what Android provides.
Depends on which governor
Default one.
Android
That’s also bad, but there’s a difference: developers on Android know about this and do workarounds like keeping a notification open. Because Android is Android, it always has this. No existing program elsewhere is designed around this.
I see you’re here just to be negative. No thank you.
Interpreting arguments as being negative; no thank you.
Try chimera Linux, it is very efficient, it doesn’t have any bloat, it is a musl libc distro ( like alpine but they modified the musl to have better performance (they’re saying it can complete or surpass glibc), it isn’t gnu/Linux, they changed the gnu userland to freeBSD userland with the Linux kernel and it is much lighter, they also use dinit instead of systemd and the boot times are very fast. Also the package manager is apk and it is very lightweight and efficient (and very fast)
Do correct me if I’m wrong here, but aren’t those embedded libc only excel in taking less space? I wouldn’t be so sure if they’d be less resource intensive. If any, it may be more, due to the CPU vs memory trade-off.
I didn’t really understand, but I did heard that standard musl is lightweight but the performance is much worse than glibc. But chimera Linux changed the allocator to mimalloc that is bit less light then the standard allocator for musl but still much lighter than glibc. Also it’s performance is very close to glibc and can even beat it sometimes
standard musl is lightweight but the performance is much worse than glibc.
Is it? I never heard this statement before (note not saying its wrong or right, just never read about that). I wonder if that statement is true and if it even matters in most cases. Similar to how performance of Python doesn’t matter for all kind of programs. The main benefit of musl is, it can be embedded into the application to make it standalone without depending on a dynamic library. Its entirely possible the code is not as optimized as glibc, but maybe it depends on the programming language its used and compiled with? Also maybe the stuff you read and heard was from early versions of musl and later they improved it to match glibc. Just speculation, but we don’t have anything else at hand right now.
Maybe you’re right, but to clarify bit what I heard is that musl is slower in heavy tasks, but still, maybe you’re right.
2 things I’m almost sure about are you that musl is lighter than glibc and that the allocator chimera Linux uses have better performance than the standard musl allocator.
I wonder why those optimizations are not part of generalized standard musl library. This (just thinking about it) indicates the optimizations by Chimera Linux are focused on specific performance improvements, while leaving something behind to reach that. What that is, I don’t know, maybe compatibility for edge cases or giving up performance for other tasks.
I’m just a bit cautious with these statements.
Probably there is something you loose if you’ll change to the allocator chimera Linux uses (btw microsoft developed it, I don’t know if it is good that they’re the once that made it but it works, I use chimera Linux with the microsoft) but I don’t now what. All I know that for general purpose pc it works great, the only troubles I got were with software made just for glibc. I’ll be happy to know what I loose when not using the standard allocator for musl, but I don’t know, is there a chance you can check it? thank you giving you point of view, I appreciate it.
Oh I have absolutely no Idea where to check at all. I guess Chimera has a community, its best to ask people who are there and use it and know it or know where to lookup.
