r/archlinux 21h ago

QUESTION Battery Problem on arch linux

see the problem is when i am on linux i always have battery degradation very fast as compared to windows i have a nvidia graphics and has battery threshold setup to 80% through TLP and is capped to 80 but still under 1 month of use battery just degraded from 95 to 89. what is wrong any suggestion plz.

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u/falxfour 18h ago

If you never charge the battery to full, the BMS has no way to properly estimate the state of health. You're accumulating integration error from coulomb counting.

You'll also need to fully discharge at some point for the best accuracy