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How is powerplans/performance modes handled in laptops running linux compared to windows? (lemmy.world)
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I want to buy a gaming laptop from mainstream brands like asus, msi, hp. I wish to install linux for gaming.

On windows we do have softwares like armoury crate, omen centre etc to control performance profiles. On windows it is impossible to get peak performance without installing those softwares and bios options are usually limited

How are these things handled in linux? Without dedicated software, can the OS( not bios) achieve peak performance with powershell/terminal?

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[–] Ashiette@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] caustictrap@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

More battery life means the cpu is power limited compared to windows + armoury crate performance mode?

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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