Is use tlp because i feel like it's available on most distros. I'm not sure if one of these tools is better than the others though.
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I prefer tlp, as it gives me more granular control than autocpu-freq, which I have also used. It allows me to retain control over certain things like USB auto-suspend behavior (a problem with some power utilities like powertop), and the audio powerdown on the headphone jack when on battery, but which was causing popping and audio cutting in after a delay whenever I started a video or application with audio.
Best you can do for the battery is turning down the screen brightness to the lowest setting where you can still see what's on the screen. Mine is ususally at 20-30% brightness.
Mine is lowest when im out, do you have an opinion on which of the 3 tools to use
I simply just use the ppd, but my laptop is low power no dgpu anyway.