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How is powerplans/performance modes handled in laptops running linux compared to windows?
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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It's very good - in some cases better than Windows. I have a MSI gaming laptop. The battery lifedin longer on linux compared to Windows.
With custom scripts you can control fan speed. However... I have a intel/nVidia card on KDE with wayland and it is hell. Nothing works as expected, so I can't tell about gaming in itself.
For other tasks, it works really well.
More battery life means the cpu is power limited compared to windows + armoury crate performance mode?
Or that the CPU is not doing needles add servings.
It probably means that there are fewer useless background processes eating up your battery
If you're asking about gaming performance on Linux, then the answer is that it depends on the game. Some run better on Linux (Cyberpunk made headlines recently) and some run worse.
Edit: ah, you're asking any Armory Crate because they have the performance modes. That's just overclocking. You can do that on Linux, but it won't be as easy as using Armory Crate.
No, I have also found that my processes run faster on Linux than on Windows. I don't know what is armoury crate but from the way you're talking about it it manages CPU modes.
Whatever you do in Windows, you can in Linux (almost). But it is sometimes harder, sometimes simpler.