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12 days agoFor some people, they don’t actually care about the politics of FOSS; they want a portfolio for employers.


For some people, they don’t actually care about the politics of FOSS; they want a portfolio for employers.
Affect other distros?
Hopefully, they’ll all get something better then cloud-init.
Canonical pumps out dumb stuff.
The distro doesn’t really matter. Buying more efficient hardware and running efficient software matters.
A 65w proc is going to use less electricity then a 240w proc. Native software is more efficient then running lots of web browsers.
If you really want to know how much power the desktop is using, measure. Measure the power coming out of the wall. Measure how much time the system is active, and feed that into a time series database with a something like Grafana for visualizations.