nala VS System76 Power Management

Use nala instead: https://gitlab.com/volian/nala

Try switching to Nala for your apt front end. Way better experience.

I do like Nala front-end for "apt". I'm new to it, but it would likely be at the top of my script.

You can use nala and do a sudo nala fetch command to find the fastest repo servers.

You’d need to be on testing or sid for nala. It’s also available from the website and you can install with dpkg.

Nala is available on Stable, but you have to use our repositories as specified in our installation instructions https://gitlab.com/volian/nala/-/wikis/Installation.

nala says hello.

I know that Nala has support for this, but it's one of the lesser used features so there could be some bugs present. https://gitlab.com/volian/nala

idk anything like this, but you can use Nala, to make apt looks better. :)

See: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power

Also refer to https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/issues/153 for setting environment variables and making simple scripts with it.

One example would be, I had problems with running native version of Substance Designer. And it had something to do with always using GPU or setting environment variables(https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/issues/153). But I wouldn't know what to look for if a random guy on a forum didn't tell me to use it with NVIDIA Graphics.

[Update 2022-02-21] It appears that there are two packages, System76-io-dkms and System76-power. From what I gather only the first is necessary. I'm not sure how to install third-party DKMS modules that are not in the official repos. The official Void documentation on this topic is sparse, is there somewhere I can look this up?

Initially it only worked with Intel CPUs but it seems it supports AMD APUs now according to this Github issue https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/issues/73

system76-power

The performance modes are going to affect how much power the system is using (and thus how much heat it's generating), not the fan curves directly. Those profiles are defined in the system76-power application, source code here: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/blob/master/src/daemon/profiles.rs

The script uses udev rules that are run at specific kernel events. It creates one rule for when the Laptop switches to battery power and another for when the Laptop switches to wall power. Both rules run system76-power while providing one of the available power profiles as an argument. I went with battery and balanced respectively.

Try the fix listed here: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/issues/358