So I am currently running stacer, tbh idk if its working good or not lol. Sometimes my computer still flares up randomly with high CPU usage and the fan going, but I try to use htop to pinpoint, but that tool is probably way more in depth than I know. I’d rather have like maybe a daemon? Or always on app that automatically notices strange things and helps balance out performance, I.e. CPU usage, ram usage, maybe heat?Battery life, overall just to help maintain optimum performance and proper running (I do not game at all BTW, so not a factor)
The three I know of are tlp, auto-cpufreq, and stacer. I’ve read that its not good to run the first two together. Plus I’ve tried tlp numerous times and I feel it made my perfoance worse… I tried the simple default settings and even thoroughly went through and customized the settings, still never seemed to work right. I experimented a little with autocpufreq but had no idea if it was working correctly lol. I mean I followed the basic instructions to set it up, but who knows. Same with stacer; dont know if its really working or if I even configured it right…
In your experiences, what would be the best tool or tools to help me with this. Not really looking for monitors as I have no idea what to do with all that info lol but tools that automatically monitor and make performance tweaks accordingly? Idk if there is an all in one solution or if you need specific apps together, but also need to be aware of possible confliction… Not to mention I set up netdata lol omg I had no clue what I was looking at or how to use it. Super overwhelming because the tool could actually help with network performance but it was so completely confusing. Definitely not for a beginner. Would love your guys suggestions please. Thank you
Thank you for being quite elaborate!
That should be fine.
That should be fine as well.
Have you considered installing those apps inside of a container? Distrobox is worth mentioning as it streamlines a lot of this process and even allows one to set a ‘distrobox’ with its own custom HOME directory. It should make experimentation a whole lot less painful, so you should definitely think about it if you haven’t yet.
I’d argue that if you reinstall Linux Mint with TLP -for what it offers in terms of battery life- and install the exotic packages within a distrobox, then most of your concerns would be resolved. Maintaining a healthier system like that should also decrease the rare bugs that you might be facing right now and thus enable you to run a system over a longer time period.
If this course of action makes running your distro too boring, then it’s probably worth exploring either Arch or Gentoo as a dualboot alongside Linux Mint. Linux Mint would be used for school/work or whatsoever, while Arch/Gentoo is where all the ‘fun’ happens. Both distros also play a lot nicer with packages not found in the official repos, so they should necessarily offer a better experience.
Ok, so I just learned about distrobox from another one of my posts on a different account. What I’m currently wanting to do is triple boot an arch distro, a debian distro, and a rhel distro. But it seems quite difficult to do and many folks advised against it… Everybody keeps pushing VM for that. Idk enough about virtualization yet, but I dont really like that idea. I’d rather have them physically installed as separate workstations on my system, ya know?