People was using Weston with Intel Laptops as it used less power many years ago. Samsung was using Fedora+Wayland for Watches and TV’s i was thinking Arch or Fedora for a new AMD laptop?
If it is new, assuming a relatively recent CPU and adequate RAM, it hardly matters.
If you want optimized power then just dig into it and configure and fiddle around with settings yourself. And then the distro does not matter.
I have an Intel only 13" laptop with 1440p screen. It has a 46 wah battery. I put Ubuntu on it and it lasts forever. Checking with powertop, it idles at around 4.5 - 5 watts at 30% brightness (I don’t like my screen to be too bright) and it goes up to 10 - 12 watts when I’m running a browser then dips down again once the browser is loaded up. I don’t know how they do it and ON GNOME (which is known to sip so much power), but they do and I’m liking it.
I went Fedora. Haven’t regretted it.
I’ve been using Fedora KDE on a 5625U on my new laptop, gives me about 5 hours.
I use this program auto-cpufreq with the “Powersave” setting and that gives me about 7 hours with barely noticeable performance degredation.
The Off screen. ;)
The screen uses the most power out of any other piece if thr system, for daily use (on laptops which supported driversets for the OS)
Just turn the brightness down, and that will save you more battery life than tinkering with anything, unless you know a specific piece of the system (nvidia gpu) is killing your battery life.
