Tips to Extend Laptop Battery Life

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Power Management Website Guide: christitus.com/laptop-power-management/

[@MStrong95]

After seeing your video on Chromebooks and Chrome OS, I went out and bought one for myself. My biggest challenge is that I can't find out where to give Android/Linux apps permission to both read and write to external storage attached to the Chromebook. It's a micro SD card if it makes any difference as to what kind of storage I plugged in. Yes I did enable the share with Linux and give equivalent permissions to the Android apps too.

[@TinS0lder]

The thermal compound speech was funny to me, because you literally taught me in person that we put on a thing layer paste. This is Erik R.

[@thenstop]

I've been watching you for a few years now, and you are one of the few youtubers than explain things on guides. Many of these "top pages" on certain search engines really suck. They say "copy these commands" with no explanation, which for new linux users, thats an issue because they don't understand what those commands do. Thanks for making actually good content.

[@sysandy2]

Thanks for another helpful video, Chris! I've always struggled with battery life on my Linux laptops over the years. I' have even gone to the extreme of using Apple macbooks since the battery life on those guys is amazing. However, I recently started playing around with Linux on the laptop again and these tips will come in handy. As a 20+yr Linux user I have played with various tweaks over the years but none of them provided much improvement. However, I was unaware of the tools you mentioned in this video. I will definitely have to revisit this and see if I can squeeze out better battery life. Thanks, again!

[@minty_x]

Have you tried auto-cpufreq?

[@chokdeesam2365]

Have some news ?

[@jamesavent3228]

Hey Chris, really useful guide! For Windows, I use Process Lasso to restrict cores on a per app basis on my laptop. I can then use it on the desktop to set the priority of apps so games get more CPU power. Definitely worth a look!

[@Tiamorg]

This helps a lot. Testing that manual setting in windows for my ryzen 7 4800h legion 5 got me the resunlts: at default, it goes up to 4.1-4.2ghz using 65-70w and like 90deg. At 99% max performance, it goes up to 2.9ghz(about 66% of the max frequency), but uses only 20w. It's a third of power, very low fan noise, and just 30% performance loss. Amazing. Thanks a lot.

[@osmanenough5292]

Instead of using this method, you can use Throttlestop. You can do undervolt and change your TPL (CPU usage (W) short term and long term). In this method your laptop runs game without massive fps loss and CPU degree will be 15-20 lower.

[@GrueneVanilleWaffel]

@@osmanenough5292 so undervolting cpu can still be profitable even if one has a nvidia gpu?

[@osmanenough5292]

@@GrueneVanilleWaffel Undervolting CPU is not related to GPU. You can undervolt GPU as well but it's whole another topic.

[@GrueneVanilleWaffel]

@@osmanenough5292 but it is soo much about thermals and overall power draw.. and if the gpu gets enough

[@osmanenough5292]

@@GrueneVanilleWaffel Let me try to explain you what's undervolting. Every CPU has a base TDP and max TDP (according to manufacturer). Let's say your cpu is 35 base and 65 max. In reality that's not the case at all. Perhaps your CPU runs perfectly at 60 W. Manufacturer doesn't wanna risk his product giving blue screen in any unstable scenario and set max TDP to 65 W. We are try to find the optimal value of our CPU. This value may change even same model and same chase laptop. That's pretty much what undervolt is. Of course we change the cpu core and cache value by offset the value (mV). Or you can just set lower your TDP values, in this way your CPU runs lower clock speed and less heat. Both methods is OK, I prefer undervolting my CPU. Choose your destiny my friend. GPU gets enough CPU usage for performance in each method.

[@Cathyprime]

Perfect time for this video, thank you. I was just wondering how to extend my battery life on windows and bring it with line on linux, because on linux battery life was halved

[@bologna3048]

Linux having better battery life? when? it seems to just chew through mine.

[@PsychoAssasin]

A bloated Windows install could go through battery faster, but a clean one usually wont. Linux running defaults will chew through battery until you do some tweaks.

[@donovangarcia1778]

I had the opposite experience with my gaming laptop. I would be lucky to get an hour and a half of SOT on windows whereas I get about 4-5 hours on Linux out of the box. I suppose it's entirely dependent on how well your hardware is supported or how well you tweak it.

[@rishirajsaikia1323]

Did you people use nvidia discrete GPU in your linux laptop ?

[@m.heyatzadeh]

Thanks for the great tips. I lowered my maximum processor limit to 50% while on battery. I also use dynamic GPU in order to save more battery.

[@fredmckinney8933]

Linux user here. On my laptop, even though I have 8 GB of RAM, I use Debian Stable with the Openbox window manager, and I decided to go with that in order to get as many hours of use as possible between charges. Setting it up was a bit of fun, too, including settling up obmenugenerator.

[@novellguySA]

thanks for taking the time to teach, appreciated

[@razza2069]

Linux 5:46 starts from here

[@gidgiddonihah13]

I don't usually comment on KZbin but I have loved my time on this channel and there were a couple of things I would like to mention. 1. Gamer’s Nexus did a video awhile back comparing varying amounts of thermal compound. The conclusion was to err on the side of too much paste. Too little dries out quickly and may not operate sufficiently as a thermal conductor. I do agree to re-paste though as OEM’s generally use crap quality compound which dries out very quickly. Arctic MX4 or anything non conductive from Thermal Grizzly would be recommended. 2. Software measurements of power usage can be misleading. This is due to the usual calculation of simple multiplication across core counts by current average core voltages. Average voltages can be highly misleading and may even not be accurate to true voltage depending on platform, hardware, kernel, etc. Maybe powertop takes a hardware report from the battery? If so then it could be more accurate but I would still would suspect software power draw reporting (even if it was pulled from hardware) unless its been verified on the hardware and OS you are running. Plenty of cases of inaccurate reporting of software which misread the hardware's output. 3. Reducing the number of cores can significantly reduce power consumption, but reducing it too much will increase power usage as the fewer enabled cores have to clock up to handle more requests. As the power and thermal envelope decreases, the boosting algorithms are set to boost more aggressively when presented with load so just keep that in mind. Otherwise, great video! Thanks for the awesome content :).

[@robertt9825]

Would also suggest adjusting the system to never really charge beyond 80% battery. I had to use bios to do it but my laptop is plugged in so often that it's worth protecting the battery over "unplugged longevity"

[@JFat5158]

Yep I have mine set to 60%, I use it on battery often but when I do it isn't for that long so it works fine for me too

[@Pedrooko]

Why exactly? What's the deal with letting it charge to 100%?

[@robertt9825]

@@Pedrooko lithium batteries wear and become stressed above 80% charge and below 20% charge. Causes them to lose capacity over time (i.e. when you begin to feel like a device is losing battery life faster over time)

[@Pedrooko]

@@robertt9825 Interesting...I've been researching how to preserve my new PC's battery.

[@Pedrooko]

Can't you just set the computer to use battery only when it's not plugged in? Otherwise, it can just be like a desktop, with wired feeding it power?

[@klote82]

Windows users: command line, powercfg /batteryreport & powercfg /energy. Very helpful info!

[@Winnetou17]

These were very nice, thank you!

[@mh-jw6gr]

For Ryzen CPU's there's `ryzenadj`, which will let you specify in watts how much power the CPU can draw, which is much better than fscking about with governors & cpu clocks. Also, `battop` is a reliable way to see power draw of a laptop. :)

[@edwardaudet8367]

Thanks Titus, always good info.. your videos are always educational.

[@buuhuu4759]

The Myth with to much thermalpaste was busted a time ago. And mit rather more than less u can be save that the whole SoC is covered and will last longer without drying. More important is what compound u use. Go for a Arctic or Grizzly one and u can leave that in for a couple of years.

[@hamidmazuji]

excellent coverage of how to manipulate power management to get a longer uptime for each charge i've found that the most important consideration for laptop power management is: sleep after x minutes plugged in always on on battery this way the battery gets a chance to charge down, which many people never allow it to do

[@xperience-evolution]

Using auto-cpufreq on Linux (Zorin) and the fans are just silent most of the time (compared to windows in powersafe mode it is absolutely astonishing). Battery also lasts very long compared to Win10/11

[@rfdiego777]

Thanks, this is really helpful! One of the few weak points (for me at least) about using linux on laptops is exactly the battery

[@theodoros_1234]

Thank you for the guide, Chris! I'm trying to optimize the hell out of my 7 year old HP Pavilion 15 laptop that has a flaming hot (only in temperature) AMD A10 APU. Another tool that came in handy for me (on Linux) is TLP, along with TLP UI (a GTK frontend for TLP) that basically concentrates many of the power management options in one place.

[@Bawkr]

I had a Pavilion 1225dx, let me say that thing was a really bad experience. I did a decent amount with it but it also killed itself very quickly over a span of 3 years. Never did solve the issue either de-soldered itself or burnt, lost a needed capacitor or some kind of corrosion near the power button perhaps. Laptops in general we're really hot and loud at that time but this one was absolutely terrible. Issue where I had to re-plug the display cable, Issue where it'd shut down due to overheating. More blue screens than any system ever. Did not like Win7 at all, was better on Vista, which honestly I didn't mind but I wish I never tried 7 on it. Near the end of it's life it was so hard to turn on, you could spam the power button for a minute and it would turn on eventually. I bought a power jack for it and that changed nothing. Aside from these issues though the thing actually was decent and actually quite good for gaming. It definitely turned me off of laptops for awhile. I bought a gt240, a dual core and shoved it's hdd into my desktop for awhile after that. It's HDD is still going for my Wii's drive now lol.

[@alice1374]

you know, the funny thing about the lifting laptops up you can get a free 2-3c decrease sometimes up to 5c lower without any pad they usually only decrease an extra 2c at most from testing. So really the best free way would just to be put your laptop at an angle or lift it up with a book or two just don't block any vents in doing so

[@nemonada3501]

I was literally about to go and research this. My laptop (Asus ROG I7 that isn't Win11 compatible) is running Artix and the battery only lasts 1.5hrs tops, so I was wondering where to start looking for stuff like this. You're a legend!

[@lavishjaat]

I also had an Asus with i7. Got only 1 to 1.5 hours of battery life. Ended up selling it. It was Asus GLX552JX btw.

[@xxxx-hw5we]

FYI, Titus also did an excellent video earlier on another software to extend battery life on Linux laptops called Auto CPU-Freq. If you haven't seen it yet be sure to.

[@nemonada3501]

@@xxxx-hw5we Awesome, I'll go have a look for it. Thanks heaps.

[@nyx019]

this video is insanely helpful! I, too, practically have a desktop-in-disguise type of laptop, the proart studiobook 16 pro oled from asus, and just plain vanilla minecraft already brings the battery life down to just above 2 hours. insane. I couldnt figure out how to regulate performance on my own, but this video has helped. thanks!

[@vitacell1]

Using wayland instead of xorg?

[@peterschmidt9942]

I'm not sure but it either depends on what laptop you have or Windows version whether processor speeds come up or not (even using config.cpl). On the ASUS Vivibook these settings aren't available in Windows. Although I'm pretty sure they are in the Acer Nitro I have. But at least you've given an indication of what to change under Linux and that's where I think power management really needs to be tweeked for laptops.

[@k3ppi537]

You go and get Arm based laptop Chromebook ditto. You can install linux apps or desktop. Live long and prosper

[@xan1242]

There's lots of room for improving power management, I agree. amd-pstate driver still needs some work. It only works on Zen 2 and newer currently. I have a 3750H which can downclock all the way to 550MHz, but acpi-cpufreq only allows minimum 1.4GHz. Granted, not even my laptop's native profiles in Windows do that normally (ASUS), but still it's lost potential. Also power-profiles-daemon could use some polish as well to allow custom profiles and adjustments. It currently doesn't do much at all on a Zen+ laptop and it's just very limiting to use. (It's used by default on Fedora) This is one of my biggest issues currently in Linux and is the reason why I don't use it on my laptop.

[@PAUL-007]

zen 2 4800h runs very hot i did the liquid metal after one year purchase hp . it reduce from 102c to 77c my display was destroyed because of heat fortunate it was on warranty. now i use a big as cooler beside table and little bit lift laptop from one side . My pstate drive wont work only acpi driver cause hp disabled cppc in bios . from 2.9 to 4.2ghz show as one state boost cant be controlled .

[@xan1242]

@@PAUL-007 You should try the shared memory option (amd_pstate.shared_mem) then, CPPC isn't totally necessary.

[@mdzaid5925]

1:20 That seems to be a very wrong suggestion. If the laptop is heating then it means that processor is operating on the higher side of frequencies and adding a cooler might cool the base down but power draw will be same. Also, unlike metals, semi conductors reduce their resistance as they heat up.

[@SomewhereDoingSomething]

Not using autocpu-freq anymore?

[@vladislavkaras491]

Thanks for the video!

[@ASh-yr5uw]

Chris, there is also the tuned utility from RedHat, which also has profiles and in the profiles you can connect your scripts on the shell. And so there is an autoamtically picks up the power consumption for the task is not bad at all. And most repositories of popular distributions have it.

[@ricardokullock2535]

Yes! Please more power management videos!

[@lopesdark]

I've been using TLP on Linux to save battery and it have been great. I wonder if I try what you recommend I may end up with conflict problems.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

some may, check you /etc/tlp.conf file and make sure you don't have any overlap. I'm not a huge fan of TLP, but if you read this documentation it is powerful when configured properly: linrunner.de/tlp/settings/introduction.html

[@dylon4906]

same, TLP gives me an extra 2-4 hours on my laptop

[@RK-ly5qj]

Chris maybe some good soft for fan control on laptop?

[@pwnhun73r]

Nice videos!!!! Changed Fedora for Debian??

[@az9az9az9]

Much of it is not successfully installable in Kubuntu 23.10, other than the graphics card switcher. My 7840HS has range from 400Mhz to 6.08GHz. Maybe the Kernel 6.5 is not supported by many of the dependencies. With hybrid graphics in silent mode, i got 3.5h from 84Wh battery. Auto-cpufreq snap package is also not working.

[@ArniesTech]

With Ubuntu 22.04LTS my Laptop lasts almost as Long as Windows 10 💪😎

[@MStrong95]

After seeing your video on Chromebooks and Chrome OS, I went out and bought one for myself. My biggest challenge is that I can't find out where to give Android apps permission to both read and write to external storage attached to the Chromebook. It's a micro SD card if it makes any difference as to what kind of storage I plugged in.

[@moetocafe]

Very informative video 👍

[@themistoclesnelson2163]

Thanks Chris!

[@AaronM-zh4ug]

I use pop os, to my knowledge that distro has the best defaults for power management. Not in that they set anythinjg on their own, but that they give an easy to access gui that has various power management tools.

[@IamLookingforWoody_________786]

Chromebook gives 12 hour+ battery backup nowadays🗿🗿🗿.

[@mercuriete]

I recommend you to try laptop-mode-tools and use your governor settings. Aparte from that... I recommend you thermald for thermal throtling.

[@romandoo]

I have no idea how did you know that I need this right now, but I do lol. I have a week old Lenovo Legion 5 Pro and I was wondering what to do to make it running swell for years to come. Thank you!

[@lordeisschrank]

do you have any recommendations on how to decrease power draw from VMs? Got this software I need for work, the old version ran in a win7 vm which drew ~6 watts (for the entire system) giving me a bit over 10 hours of battery life. The new version abandonned win7 support, and the win10 vm I set up now sips AT LEAST 12 watts (usually more...) any idea on how to bring that down to at least 8?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I rarely run a VM these days as most things I put in a docker container. Can you containerize the project?

[@LikeATreeOnAMountain]

I found a very helpful KZbin video titled "How To Create an Efficient Windows 10 Virtual Machine In Linux - QEMU/KVM - Virtual Machine Manager" around the 4:40 mark it shows some modifications to the XML config for the CPU section that made a huge difference for me.

[@ambuj.k]

My main issue with Linux is that despite all these great power management tools, there is not much to detect and autoswitch based on power source.

[@xperience-evolution]

install auto-cpufreq and it will give you the power you need automatically. This should be installed on every Linux Distro out of the box. It works wonders

[@benacker8525]

Very useful tips. Great video. The information provided is correct :) at times Chris has some wrong and unsafe approach. Overall great guy from Linux community!

[@serpantinthewild]

What's the unsafe approach?

[@Winnetou17]

I don't know how things are in Windows 11, but on Windows 10, you can simply go into the Settings then Power and create more power plans there. I've made 2 for me, one that is high performance, when I'm actively using the laptop and I'm charged in. In this power profile it maxes out almost everything, but I also disabled all kinds of turning off. No sleep, no monitor or screen going off, nothing. And because these bothered me a lot, I also made another power profile, battery saver, in which I turned down most things. It is noticeable slower, though for light tasks it's not impactful. And here I also disabled all kinds of turning off while on AC, since it appeared to me that going to sleep and waking up sometimes messes things out, either the Windows itself or some peripheral. It's nice to see than on battery saver, the CPU package of my i7-6700HQ usually consumes between 3 and 4 W. Yes, 4W.

[@Daniel_VolumeDown]

Which of these are persistent changes? I woud like to test these things before setting them permanently, and even after that it would be good to have option to revert changes to default

[@RadioactiveBlueberry]

On Windows, all of it, once you hit Apply or OK. On Linux, I don't think there would be separate session-scoped try-mode either in most of the utilities out there (although, if some isn't permanent, that kindof can be made as one by adding it to startup script). This isn't new software though, power management has existed for about two decades. I'd say the chances of ruining your installation is higher by updating kernel or switching hardware, but as an option you can make a distro of your choice as bootable LiveDVD/USB and try from that temporary environment first (and with that you can also rescue the system and/or files from the actual installation if something still does go wrong, so it's a good idea to have it anyway). For reverting changes, a filesystem rollback solution like TimeShift may be what you're looking for.

[@UltimateMustacheX]

I've been thinking of switching to Linux (probably the HP Dev One), and the only thing holding me back is reviews saying the 12 hr battery is really only 4-6 hrs when doing things like watching videos. But if these changes can boost that to even 8 hrs, I'd be happy. I currently have a windows that gets about 6 hrs with youtube, so I'll see how much of a difference these changes make for it. [Edit] - So I tried lowering the max from that powercfg part to 50% and everything went so slow. It took like 10-20 seconds for an internet page to load. I kept bumping it up, but it remained slow even at 90%. I guess it's such a weak computer that it needs every bit it's taking. It was a cheap laptop set in safe mode by default (I turned that off), so I probably shouldn't be surprised that this particular fix didn't change much.

[@xperience-evolution]

If you want it simpler and automated just install auto-cpufreq and it will give you always the power you need but not the power you don't need. I get more battery life out of my Laptop than on Windows10/11 (now only running Linux) and even the fans are quiter than on windows power saving mode.

[@Lon1001]

Best video I've ever seen on power management for laptops. I made a few tweaks to my power plan even when on AC but it didn't make a difference, forgot to actually switch to that plan after I customized it. As soon as I did it quickly improved (CPU is several degrees cooler and the fan is not running as often or as fast). I was expecting to see some info about undervolting in this video... I have been using throttlestop from techpowerup and it also has made a noticeable difference in the temperature and fan noise... between the tweaks in this video and in throttlestop (in my case I only undervolted by 56mv yet it quieted right down and is still completely stable) it's nice and quiet for my everyday use and only gets noisy when I'm doing more intensive things. I also have a cooling stand with a fan, and now that fan is much noisier than my laptop so I turn it off most of the time and just use it passively.

[@maxarendorff6521]

Chris, what's your opinion on the built-in power saver mode in Gnome 42?

[@ahmet05ac]

slimbook power tools are amazing actually.. worth giving it a try

[@skarlok1]

Hey, Do you know how to customize shortcuts on windows without extra programs or perhaps did you made a tutorial about customizing windows?

[@lopez37]

Doesn't make a big difference in battery life compared to activating Battery Saving at 50% in Windows. Tested in an Asus Zenbook with Ryzen 4700U

[@Kwales66]

Thanks great video. How often should you thermal paste your CPU?

[@Raylightsen]

At least every 6 months.

[@Kwales66]

@@Raylightsen Thanks.

[@ahmedawny7236]

great video

[@gamerking64]

Just use auto-cpufreq in linux and you will get many hours on battery and maximum performance when charging.

[@anasouardini]

the only solid way is through the BIOS.

[@ProblemSolver101]

Thank you Chris, well timed as I just swapped to laptop to use less power. I have noticed those changes are not in place after reboot on Linux Debian 11 machine ( installed using your guide as well :D) so there is my question. Am I doing it wrong or is it normal?

[@sdfjsd]

How many more hours of battery life did you get out of your PC after changing the min to 5%, and the max to 25%?

[@royalcanadianbearforce9841]

I actually just bought a Razerbook 13 and put Manjaro on it. Its replacing my custom Lenovo T520 that also ran Manjaro.. The difference in performance vs battery life is wild lol. I havent repasted my RZ13 but the T520 is running Kryonaut by ThermalGrizzly. Curious: How do you feel about logically turning off the cores via CLI? Any experience with respect to power savings vs performance? I havent found a good method of benchmarking this. I used this technique previously on my T520 as I modded it to support a i7-2620QM (Up from a i5 2520m) and under a sustained all core load, she would get upwards of 90C.

[@LZeugirdor]

If you're able, whether through Linux or the bios, you can undervolt/disable multithreading. That should drastically reduce the temperature depending on the CPU. On my laptop with the i7 7700hq it's a well known fact Intel used previous processor voltage ratings on these more efficient cpus unnecessarily increasing power draw and heat. I actually undervolted it 110 millivolts, it was insane. I managed to drop 10 degrees Celsius just with that. I understand you can't do that with every CPU that drastically. But give slight undervolting a try while also disabling hyperthreading and let me know how it turns out.

[@JM-sn5eb]

By default gnome (for example) install has power-profiles-daemon Should I disable/ remove it for tips from video to work? Or should I get rid of tlp? Or tips from video will work with power-profiles-daemon?

[@Milena-ix5mq]

How often would it be okay to change my thermopaste, in general?

[@chairman67]

Brilliant stuff

[@dilip.sarker]

Informative video

[@TheLazyJAK]

What about tlp? 🤔

[@13thravenpurple94]

please do a video on how to configure auto-cpufreq 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@loki-oq1lj]

How to remove qemu minning virus and all files related to loudminner. Please make a video on this loudminner.

[@InitCommit]

Are the changes made with "cpupower frequency-set" and "turning off cores" permanent or are the defaults restored when you reboot your system?

[@yanisrabah4782]

One thing for the people who want to turn down the maximum CPU percentage it's going to give you more lag i had it on 50 % and i was searching up how my is kinda laggy

[@MyReviews_karkan]

The minute I disable turbo-boost on my laptop, it starts chugging badly even on the desktop UI. I just use power-profiles-daemon and set it to default. Getting 3-4 hours of batter on my 56 wah batter with a 4k screen.

[@conah9440]

Any thoughts about turning virtualisation off in the bios? More threads more power drain or nah? I just plugged the power brick into a smart plug (with energy monitor)After changing the Power settings in Windows i'm seeing 16-20 watts on an idling Dell 7520. Pretty good i reckon.

[@MarcinSzklany]

Virtualization setting consumes no power if you're not running a VM, so I would not worry about it.

[@conah9440]

@@MarcinSzklany Thanks.

[@lakshayrohilla965]

Does envy control works on laptop which does not have mux switch ?

[@thefiveoh]

So would you say that when optimized Linux isw better than a stripped windows? Bettery wise.

[@mosesfrancis4976]

I am using POP OS. After watching your videos, I have installed auto-cpufreq to conserve battery life. May I use this tool too? Or no need?

[@ADI_DUT]

how can i run these codes?

[@sdfjsd]

Do you recommend enabling power saver with the max at 25%?

[@strahdf]

Thank you

[@amadensor]

Envy control doesn't play well with my machine. In integrated mode, only the internal display, in Nvidia mode, only external. In hybrid mode, only the integrated works. And I lost the ability to extend desktop across both monitors. Time for troubleshooting so I can contribute and make it better.

[@the-real-zpero]

I have an MSI Delta 15 AMD Advantage Edition. It has the 5800H and the 6700M. I've completely given up on getting good battery life on it. When I type "powerprofilesctl" into the terminal, it indicates that I'm using a placeholder driver. So I managed to activate the amd-pstate driver in the kernel, and re-did the battery test. It really didn't change anything. Setting the profile to powersave doesn't really improve battery life. I tried auto-cpufreq but it's bugged on my laptop. It keeps waking up the dGPU, so it actually makes my battery life awful. I heard TLP disables your turbo boost so I haven't tried TLP. I've just accept that with windows I get 6h of video playback battery life and with Linux I get 2h. I don't know what to do to make it better.

[@strangename5363]

Just so you know , max processor state on 99% just turn off the turbo boost and that is eunough for me

[@mamalujo2003]

@Chris Hi. Are there any laptops and sites or stores, where i may be able to buy a reliable used laptop? I have an old Toshiba running Windows 8.1, which as you probably know is near end-of-life for updates. It cannot handle Windows 10.

[@Loader7272]

Howdy...I bought the Kfocus too..intel cpu, 32 gig ram, 6gig video card, not quite as much as CTT horse pwr as CTT's beast, but I can render an 8 gig video pretty darn fast....have to say it is a beast too, and does anything I want it to do. Almost made the mistake and got a sony/lenovo...so glad I didn't...and the case opens up for easy access. Almost a year now and I'm pleased with the performance. btw, your old model T can handle lots of linux distros. : )

[@Eragon-go4ww]

I trying to set the cpu scaling governor from performance to powersave and back if I switch the power modes in gnome but can't find a way to run a script when changing those power modes

[@DipankarDas-cm1zs]

Fedora having bad battery life when non free rpm Nvidia driver was installed and solutions as I want to use Nvidia driver when req but not all the times is there a way?

[@yowdhann7134]

How to do the scropt?

[@opthie858]

Hey,how do you revert the number of CPU cores used back to normal? Thanks.

[@Praxss]

Windows really need to do work on sleep laptop thing

[@ThisIsTranquil]

Idk if you can have the same battery saving I have on my android (since android is a linux based os) schedutil works for me than ondemand in terms of power efficiency. Or depends on case to case basis in linux probably

[@kite-kiteajo8952]

On linux , is it better than auto-cpufreq? Im kinda new here

[@Justin_Strack]

my computer doesn't have "processor power management" options. ASUS TUF17 2021

[@StefanAlexandruGeogloman]

Unfortunately, mine has liquid metal on GPU, so changing the thermal paste on the CPU would be...hard.

[@marek7673]

Hi Titus, can you please help me with emergency mode while booting to fedora 36?

[@osmanenough5292]

Hey Chris, I am a Asus TUF laptop user and I can't control my laptop fans (with Armoury Crate or 3rd party program). Is there any way to control fans for laptop users? Some kinda script or 3rd party program which I'm willing anything to try.

[@dannyc8318]

bro i want to talk with you about arch linux specific pacman is creating trubble

[@jrapplefan2231]

Personnaly, if I pay a lot of money to buy the fastest CPU this is not to put it in idle state. It is like paying for a Lamborguini and driving it at the speed of a Lada.

[@Bawkr]

Just downgraded from x1 carbon 2nd gen to a t430 nvidia thinkpad. Better keyboard option and nvidia drivers for old pc games.

[@daddysgem4296]

Hi Bro. I tried to delete Microsoft edge HTML battery report. Then I touched skip option. After that I cannot generate battery report. No errors or anything. What to do Bro ?

[@tunamert0]

But how to undo them?

[@laughingvampire7555]

cooling bases with fans are no better than just raising bases. as long as you have a computer base that raises your laptop from the table so hot air can flow from all the sides of the laptop you are done. fans in the base are just a gimmick, especially for the crowd with crybaby ears who can't tolerate loud fans, if you are a delicate flower who suffers PTSD with loud fans forget about cooling your laptop.