I want to buy a gaming laptop from mainstream brands like asus, msi, hp. I wish to install linux for gaming.

On windows we do have softwares like armoury crate, omen centre etc to control performance profiles. On windows it is impossible to get peak performance without installing those softwares and bios options are usually limited

How are these things handled in linux? Without dedicated software, can the OS( not bios) achieve peak performance with powershell/terminal?

  • @caustictrapOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I usually uninstall armory crate and other manufacturer bloat from gaming laptop while using windows and i use high performance power plan on windows. But armoury crate unclocks better high performance modes delivering more power to cpu. Since you have no armoury crate/msi centre on linux you will never know the performance you are leaving behind. Correct me if i am wrong.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      high performance power plan

      You can at least do this by using the performance CPU governor although there is a fair amount of nuance here in that how it’s implemented depends on the CPU and a few other things. In general, it’s a safe starting point, however.

      If armoury crate is a CPU overclocking utility, than that is another matter. There is some CPU overclocking support on Linux, although I’m mostly familiar with AMD CPUs and this support differs by manufacturer. This page isn’t a bad starting point if you use an AMD CPU.

    • @seaQueueEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Our asus-linux community has implemented support for most of the ASUS ROG models. There’s some TUF support available AFAIK but the focus was mostly on the ROG machines.

      Check out asus-linux.org for the software details, there are binary repos available for Fedora and Arch.