If you use Linux on a laptop you’ll know the only battery stat that matters is the one that tells you how long it’ll be before you’ve diving at a power socket, which is I always enable battery percentage in the top bar. Job done. It’s practical, it’s prominent, and in day-to-day use it’s all you need to known. Sometimes, though, you want to find out more about your battery itself: it’s capacity and current health, number of charge cycles, voltage support and how much is coming in from your charger, manufacturer and model number (if planning to replace), etc. […]You're reading Monitor Your Linux Laptop Battery Health with Wattage, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.