Less bloat does not mean less battery consumption

One of the advantages touted by linux is its lack of bloat but because of driver issues and poor optimization this bloat doesn't really seem to matter much at the end. I tested windows against Debian Testing with powertop/tlp, the latest kernel, and an extremely minimal install where I just had a minimal WM and the command line as the home screen. After setting it up with my own shell noscripts/shortcuts/etc to make it easier to use, lowering brightness by a lot, and tuning it with the power management programs, I calculated a 4.2 hour battery life from a 1 minute drainage test (and confirmed this approximate figure an hour later) while just browsing chrome. Windows, while doing pretty much whatever on the other hand gives a 5.2 hour battery life, 4 hours if I'm playing video games. While it may seem logical that less bloat would lead to a longer battery life, this is sadly not the case.

This makes me wonder why this is ever said to be a benefit of linux. Perhaps with older machines when OS storage and RAM were actual limitations, less bloat made sense, but the millions of possibly unnecessary options available on Windows, while perhaps violating the ethos of minimalism, have no actual drawbacks in terms of performance (at least for my machine).

(At least for laptops with newish hardware)

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E-waste is a big problem. Linux, by breathing new life into older computers, laptops & phones, could play a valuable role in reducing tech's eco impact. Are we doing enough as Linux peeps to make machines re-useable via our fave OS? Attached article discusses the amount of emissions we could save!
https://www.ns-businesshub.com/science/smartphone-environmental-impact/

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Midnight Commander behaves differently with sudo?

Since I'm mainly managing Nginx I like to always run MC under sudo. But when I do that it no longer recognises my default editor (micro) and always uses nano.
Also switching to plain shell to type commands don't work because it seems the shell is not released for new commands after running "sudo mc".

Is there any way I can fix these two issues?

Thanks!

Edit:

my Fish config looks like this:

export EDITOR="/usr/bin/micro"

export SUDO_EDITOR="/usr/bin/micro"

export VISUAL="/usr/bin/micro"

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What is the best Linux distro for a programmer?



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Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2019 – Almeria, Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXO72dJXNA

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Didn't know that Zorin is also a furniture manufacture.
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Watching the new Child's Play. Chucky uses Arch btw
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KDE Plasma 5.17 Beta: Thunderbolt, X11 Night Color and Redesigned Settings
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.16.90.php

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Linus: 'we should just change getrandom() and add that GRND_SECURE flag instead'
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiGg-G8JFJ=R7qf0B+UtqA_Weouk6v+McmfsLJLRq6AKA@mail.gmail.com/

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LLVM 9.0.0 Released
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-September/135304.html

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Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”
https://getkiss.org/

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Favorite websites for Linux news?

What are some of your favorite websites for news about Linux?

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elementary OS Updates for August, 2019
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-august-2019/

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Linux on the mainframe: Then and now | Opensource.com
https://opensource.com/article/19/9/linux-mainframes-part-2

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SFTPGo 0.9.2 released with Prometheus metrics support

SFTPGo is a free and open source SFTP Server written in Go. It works on Linux, macOS and Windows and has no runtime dependencies.

Here are the main new features compared to 0.9.1 version:

\- Prometheus metrics support

\- Dockerfiles based on Debian and Alpine

\- Key Exchange algorithms, allowed ciphers and message authentication code algorithms are now configurable

\- Upload/download errors detection. Actions are not executed on error

\- sha512 crypt support, useful for migrating from system user's accounts

\- Logging improvements

\- Launchd sample service for macOS

\- Windows Service support

​

You can find the full list of features and the documentation on the project page:

[https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo](https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo)

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Binary releases for Linux, macOS and Windows are available:

[https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/releases](https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/releases)

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If you want to suggest a new feature or you find a bug please open an issue here:

[https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/issues](https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/issues)

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Sometimes there are too many options

While I love that there are so many distro choices so everyone can find the right one for them it can also be annoying. I have OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with XFCE on my laptop because "it just works", Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi and Manjaro with KDE on desktop. I also have to ssh occasionally to other Linux (and BSD) boxes. For shells I have to use bash, zsh or tcsh depending on the system and so often I find myself wondering why something isn't working till I realize I'm using wrong syntax or command for the environment in question.

Sorry, rant over now.

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SQL Server on Linux Usage

I'm doing research for an upcoming course and would be really interested to hear how people are using SQL Server on Linux out in the wild. What have been your best/worst experiences, especially in comparison to using it on Windows? Loves/hates vs other RDBMS on Linux. If you were designing a course, what would you want students to know? Thanks!

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systemd-homed: Reinventing Home Directories
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/asg2019/relive/164

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When, how, why did you start your Linux journey? How did you discover Linux, what had drawn you to it, and what's keeping you there now?



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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - September 20, 2019

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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The Passion Of Saint iGNUcius
https://jackbaruth.com/?p=16779

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