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submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Idle power on my laptop.

KDE Wayland: 10 watts
KDE X11: 6 watts

It was this way when I checked years ago. Still this way as of a few weeks ago.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I had the opposite for whatever reason

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Can you measure herbstluftwm + X11?

How are you measuring electricity use? powertop?