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Sorry i should have made it clearer in my post, I have been using archlinux and xmonad for more than 10 years but i do reevaluate the choices i make/made. While the power settings has gotten a lot better over the course i was wondering if there is any laptop+os that gives close to macbook battery life.

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The issue in most cases is that hardware that also runs windows will only support S5 Sleep so that Windows 11 can download fresh advertisements while your laptop is “sleeping”. In some cases, you can patch the DSDT tables in the firmware to reenable S3. But also many recent laptops will just not fully support deep sleep. And that means the MacBooks are superior on the hardware level and there isn’t really anything that Windows or Linux can do.

>The issue in most cases is that hardware that also runs windows will only support S5 Sleep so that Windows 11 can download fresh advertisements while your laptop is “sleeping”.

That explains some things. When I got my new laptop I played with Windows for awhile before installing linux, was surprised by how much the battery drained when unplugged and supposedly asleep. Was also surprised by how poor battery life in general was with Windows. Linux solved both issues, guess I got a laptop which properly supports deep sleep?

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