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I have done clean installs of Windows 10, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 on my ThinkPad over the last few months. From best to worse perceived performance the order is Windows 11, Windows 10, Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04. Windows 11 also has better power usage than Windows 10 on my ThinkPad. Fedora and Ubuntu have greatly improved over the last year as far as battery usage, kernel 5.17 seems to be when the big improvement happened, but are still significantly more power hungry than either version of Windows.


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