Top 6 things to do after installing Ubuntu and also save laptop battery life
I have frequently heard complaints about how Ubuntu is draining battery life of their laptop. While this doesn't happen in all the machines, it has happened to mine and I have had to search the internet to fix them. I have put together a list of a few things to do after a fresh installation of Ubuntu x.x. Not all steps mentioned below are required for conserving battery life, but they made sense when talking about a fresh installation of Ubuntu. 1. Get rid of Unity Desktop Environments are a integral part of your OS. They need to serve as good aesthetics in terms of design as well as a stable backend application. Unity is neither. You are better off with Gnome . Or, if your system needs to handle power-friendly DE, go for XFCE . I use i3 desktop manager but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have already used Linux for a while and are familiar with all the terminal commands. First remove Unity. sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset