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?)

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I assume Alpine Linux is very limited in terms of power usage, at least out of the box.

      • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency.

        https://www.alpinelinux.org/about/

        It’s also around for 20 years already, so long before Docker was a thing. But setting it up as a desktop OS would be a bit of work, I agree.

      • lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        Actaully super nice using it with KDE or a independant window manager- But then you just have all the desktop packages installed anyway so my resource useage is the exact same as my arch setup…

        Alpine is amazingly small compared to other bare bones distros, but that saved 10mb of ram doesn’t mean much when your desktop and browser are using a gig