Kevin

I don’t know for sure though, because in theory they keep the core powered down during suspend sleep so in theory there really shouldn’t be any power draw aside from the memory modules. However you’re right that there’s some noticeable difference for some reason

Anecdotally it seems to have a similar drain rate to my laptop, around 10% a day in sleep (though I would recommend actually verifying this yourself to be sure). So if you want to conserve battery life, turning it off is the way to go

Ahh right, good point

But as far as I understand, it’s designed to be a Vulkan layer. I’m pretty sure they can be installed under the user’s home directory at ~/.local and picked up by Mesa automatically