I still have some issues with power consumption after installing Mint on my laptop. You can find a previous thread.
While I had Windows installed, I don't remember being it that hot in the CPU area.
In the meantime I discovered
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sudo powerstat
Summary:
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System: 9.41 Watts on average with standard deviation 1.32
Using
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sudo powertop
I have found some reports of users in 5-6 W range and mine is almost double that.
Can you post your powerstat average and powertop overview, especially for network power usage? Maybe I simply want too much.