cpupower-gui VS TLP

I use cpupower-gui for this, and installing the .deb on their releases page works flawlessly. In my experience, it does a pretty good job at improving battery life, even on modern systems.

I was looking into using envycontrol to disable the dGPU in linux, and maybe ryzen controller or cpu-power to limit cpu power usage.

For power management, you could use something like cpupower-gui to underclock the CPU whenever you need to conserve battery.

There's https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui but its GTK based

I use gnome so I have no clue what the KDE slider does, sorry! But you should check out cpupower-gui

You can also use cpupower-gui to park cores, although Phawx mentioned he used some other tool. In this tool, you just need to uncheck the cpu you need to turn off.

Also I would recommend using cpupower-gui if your frequencies are too high. This tool lets you do frequency scaling and lets you select a governor in a gui.

github for cpupower-gui

- name: Ensure useful packages are present hosts: k8s gather_facts: false # don't gather information on nodes as I don't use them become: true tasks: - name: Ensure all apt packages are updated to their latest version ansible.builtin.apt: update_cache: true # run the equivalent of apt-get update cache_valid_time: 86400 # in seconds: one day upgrade: yes # run apt-get upgrade - name: TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life - https://linrunner.de/tlp/ ansible.builtin.apt: name: tlp state: present - name: Enforce security hosts: k8s gather_facts: false become: true tasks: - name: Ensure firewall is configured and running block: - name: Ensure firewall package is installed ansible.builtin.apt: name: ufw state: present - name: Allow incoming HTTPS traffic community.general.ufw: rule: allow comment: Allow incoming HTTPS traffic protocol: tcp port: 443 - name: Allow everything from LAN community.general.ufw: rule: allow comment: Allow everything from LAN protocol: any from_ip: 192.168.1.0/24 ... - name: Ensure firewall is up and running community.general.ufw: state: enabled - name: Ensure microk8s is up and running hosts: k8s roles: - role: 'istvano.microk8s' vars: microk8s_version: 1.29/stable ...

Usually full charge give me about ~5 hours, after install tlp here https://linrunner.de/tlp

https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/

They definately do conflict, it was discussed back when ppd first arrived: https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/564

If you're certain your GPU has deeper power saving states than P8, I would start by checking why it's not using them. Maybe tlp, powertop or nvtop (or their documentation) can help.

I use TLP for my personal laptop https://linrunner.de/tlp/

if you don't already have it installed, you could try tlp: https://linrunner.de/tlp/

Install TLP