Again I don't understand the necessity for heat. I kept saying that I am a newbie doing this. If you had such a problem with it then why not make the post yourself. I have done none of the things you accuse me of and the devs themselves haven't made any objections. In fact its quite the opposite. A lot of people just link to this post.
Instead of repeating yourself just leave your suggestions/corrections and I'll ask for an explanation if necessary because this is also a learning endeavor for me.
I was referring to the 4th gen Intel cpu. I remember someone earlier said he had a problem on that gen cpu and they referred to it as an older cpu though my memory is a bit hazy.
Oh, yes this model does have an older cpu, but it's the 2ND best cpu I've ever had. I lost everything I owned since covid and had to choose 1 laptop to not lose, and I chose this Thinkpad even over my $2000 MSI Leopard Pro because this Thinkpad is so much tougher, more likely to survive homeless life, and the CPU is a Monster. I love this CPU. It runs cool too. Plus, my MSI was a lemon anyway. I do have complaints on their choice of GPU on this Thinkpad (GeForce GT 730M) but I'm not a gamer. I use GPUs for password cracking and this crappy GPU still cracks 3x faster than the CPU.
EDIT: This CPU's highest Geekbench score is only 300 points behind my MSI's highest (Core i7-6700HQ). Combine that with the lower temps and I should say this 4th Gen i7-4700MQ is the best CPU I've ever had. 300 points is nothing.
Mine is the 4th generation i5 what ever you said does not bother me personally, But statements starting with he said then i said are usually not a good idea as they are never fact just hear say but never mind just enjoy your little trip in Linux land. good luck.
Not all laptops and hardware are the same. That is now clear.
I prefer to leave the offered graphics settings during the installation, even if, as in my case, it doesn't matter.
If I want to surf without electricity (the electric passage greets [Guru Guru]), I take measures that allow me to surf 2 hours longer than with full power.
This is life. We have to accept it.
So generally, Windows uses more battery life than Linux for the most part from what I've seen thanks to services running among other things. But Garuda is very heavily focused on performance which is cool for desktops but I don't need so much on my laptop. So I'm just curious how you would compare Garuda with the above tweaks in terms of performance but also battery life to Windows 10.
My laptop on Windows: 2.9 hours from full charge.
My laptop on Garuda all tweaked up: 3.1 hours from full charge.
My laptop is a real power sucker.
It's going to depend a bit on your hardware,what you do with it, etc. Probably best to think of all these tweaks as "seeking optimal local outcomes" rather than more general power goals.
I'd call it equal performance, with movie playing, web browsing, email and other things not terribly needful of computing power. However, Minecraft gets 2-3 more FPS on average under Garuda.
In my experience I get around 3 hrs of battery life no matter the OS. However if you truly don't need that much performance there is a tlp config listed that will limit your cpu's max frequency among other things. There is also undervolting. Linux is far more configurable than windows so you can adjust to your needs.
Thanks you @Khsh01 for the guide. I was having trouble with overheating using ananicy-cpp and removing it and installing auto-cpufreq solved the problem!
Should be, they do different things. (Haven't tried it myself, auto-cpufreq was more trouble than it was worth on my laptops, I just set them to ondemand (or whatever was default) and left it there.)
Did you choose ondemand over pstate performance or does your laptop simply not support pstate? The archwiki states pstate performance is better than ondemand but I have no concrete evidence of either.
This sounds dumb, but I've had a better experience with using my budget AMD laptop by ditching linux-zen in favor of linux-lqx. I've compared the two and I have no why aince they're supposed to be veeeery similar. I don't know what sort of tests or benchmarks I should use to compare the two if anyone wants to see results...
