The default battery trip point is set to design capacity of warning: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9d1ddab261f3e2af7c384dc02238784ce0cf9f98/drivers/acpi/battery.c#L654 There are two issues: 1. ACPI spec says design capacity of warning should trigger OS notification through the UI. It says nothing about the system doing anything or triggering sleep, so this value should be irrelevant as far as kernel behaviour is concerned. 2. Windows ignores design capacity of warning. If Windows ignores it OEMs will inevitably not test it properly. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/component-guidelines/acpi-battery-and-power-subsystem-firmware-implementation Setting battery trip point to design capacity of low matches ACPI spec and aligns to Windows so is more likely properly tested by OEMs. Supporting point 2 is this note: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9d1ddab261f3e2af7c384dc02238784ce0cf9f98/drivers/acpi/battery.c#L509-L510