Is 60W a lot? I think a system with a few mechanical hard drives and fans will be at least half of that regardless of the processor used. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
darcmage
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I think I've run into this bug a couple of times. For some reason, the grid can become unaligned and I'd have to restart the launcher from the advanced options to fix it. I wish development was faster but that's how open source goes sometimes.
I've been using neo launcher since nova was sold. What kind of bugs have you encountered?
I'm glad OP's linux gaming experience is so much better than it is on windows. I don't say this to cast aspersions but if the results were reliable and repeatable, people like christitus, gardiner and many others would make daily videos on the topic just to get all the views(dollars) it would surely generate. It would cause a seismic shift in the PC gaming space.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Sagan
It's doesn't have anywhere near the same feature set or polish but I think neolauncher probably comes the closest to replacing nova as far as open source solutions go.
Obligatory I play exclusively on linux.
In the absence of a gamersnexus video or phoronix article, I'm going to take this with a large grain of salt. Especially when a video like this one is showing much higher performance in windows. The different cpu shouldn't account for much of a difference when playing at higher resolutions and the benchmarks shows the game being gpu limited.
Found this in my bookmarks. Can't speak to the reliability since I haven't had a reason to use it yet.
There are too many variables that go into battery usage to get any meaningful insight. Different apps, cpus, screen brightness/refresh rates, active radios, etc... It's an endless list. Best you can do is compare with someone you know with the same model who has similar usage patterns. Good luck.
Do you mind including your budget in the OP? That would help others do their own calculations on electricity savings vs cost of hardware over time.
I've been monitoring this page https://gist.github.com/ironicbadger/5da9b321acbe6b6b53070437023b844d from https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ceUIUyZwchY
It's showing some really interesting results for various processors and their efficiency while transcoding.