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Last edited by crosscourt (2025-08-06 02:33)
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I would say that anyone considering it, if you have a laptop, your battery life will drop rather significantly in my testing with Xanmod vs. the default kernel.
Also, if you have a reasonably modern CPU (8 threads+), you should definitely go with v3 or even v4 instead of v2. In my xanmod install script, I don't even OFFER the v2 CPU's that require it are so old (anything older than Haswell for Intel mainline CPU's, Excavator for AMD. Intels Atom-based CPU's are the exception). For AMD I know the cutoff for v3-v4, but for Intel it bounces around, as I believe Rocket Lake (11th gen) was v4, but the successor to it, Alder Lake, was only v3. I do know that as of Meteor Lake (Core Ultra 100 series), all Intel CPU's marketed as Core Ultra are v4.
If anyone does like xanmod but wants an easier way without writing their own script:
#!/bin/sh
apt install -y curl
curl -L https://dl.xanmod.org/archive.key | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/xanmod-archive-keyring.gpg
cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xanmod.sources
# deb822 source:
# https://xanmod.org/
Types: deb
URIs:
http://deb.xanmod.org
Suites: releases
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/xanmod-archive-keyring.gpg
Enabled: yes
EOF
apt update
echo "Choose your kernel optimization level"
echo "1 - x64v3: Intel or Ryzen up to Zen3 cores"
echo "2 - x64v4: Ryzen Zen4 cores or newer"
echo "Which kernel do you want to install?"
read n
case $n in
1) apt install linux-xanmod-x64v3;;
2) apt install linux-xanmod-x64v4;;
*) echo "invalid option, learn to read";;
esacLast edited by tlmiller76 (2025-08-06 05:19)
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From what Ive seen online Liquorix for many gives much better battery life than Xanmod or the standard kernel. Thats also been the experience for some in these forums, who have reported their results.
I use distros that are Debian based which use Liquorix and in my experience the battery savings versus the standard kernel arent that large.
I can only report about my hardware as anyone elses experience will probably vary.
Last edited by crosscourt (2025-08-07 02:16)
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Honestly, been so long since I used the Liquorix kernels, that I really don't remember how they were with battery life. Zabbly kernels are about on par with the main repo kernels but much newer (and are my personal choice for many of my Debian installs and all my KDE Neon installs), I used Xanmod on my desktop for a long while, but it's such an inefficient kernel (and they openly admit that the optimizations they do are for performance and will hurt efficiency) that with my having MOSTLY laptops I just don't care for it myself. That said, obviously, I do still keep a script around in order to install it if needed.
Q4OS Trinity machine - HP Probook 445 G11. AMD Ryzen 7 7735U, 16GB DDR5, 512GB m.2 NVMe SSD, Radeon RX780M, MediaTek MT7922 (AMD RX616) Wifi 6E + BT 5.2, 14" WUXGA 400-nit LCD.
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For most users I think sticking to the standard kernel is the best move, but we have two users here onsite who have expressed large improvements in both cpu temps and battery life with Liquorix. Ive never tried the Zabbly kernels.
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For most users I think sticking to the standard kernel is the best move, but we have two users here onsite who have expressed large improvements in both cpu temps and battery life with Liquorix. Ive never tried the Zabbly kernels.
If you ever want to, I have a script for installing that too (choices for Ubuntu or Debian installation, instead of different optimization levels since Zabbly doens't offer that). I will say that with Zabbly on Ubuntu, for best results, does require a little after-installation work, and you need to keep the latest Ubuntu kernel installed still (for linux-tools).
Last edited by tlmiller76 (2025-08-07 02:45)
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That would be great thanks tlmiller76. Im typing on Neon as I write this trying out the latest updates, I missed.
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Tried Xanmod more recently and it didn't perform well at all. Ive been using Liquorix kernels with some other distros and so far its been really good.
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