Hello,
I used Tumbleweed-Gnome on my laptop, which I try to keep as close as the default install as possible. I noticed that I had no power profiles options, and looking into it, I realised the following:
the tuned service is installed and disabled. tuned-utils are not installed (but they are not necessary).
no power saving services/daemons are running. cpupower service is installed, but disabled. tlp is not installed, but conflicts with the above tools, so that is logical.
I am aware that I can enable the tuned service, and create/modify configs that suit me. Some opensuse users have shared interesting ones (example). This post is more to understand is this is a default tumbleweed policy to leave a service like tuned disabled. The documentation of the Leap distro (15.6 available, at the time of writing this post) does not mention tuned, only SLES does.
Any advice/best practice, or feedback on performance and power management tuning is welcome. Thank you
In most cases power-profiles-daemon is installed by default and active on Gnome and KDE Plasma. As tuned and tlp services conflict with power-profiles-daemon, they are disabled.
Depending on when you first installed that system you may have gotten different packages by default. 3 or 4 years ago I got tlp installed by default on laptops.
After Gnome 50 recently I uninstalled tlp and installed power-profiles-daemon.
On a recent VM install I find power-profiles-daemon installed by default with KDE.
Since a tad before Leap 16.0 got released, packaging got changed. Nowadays no Manager gets installed, so you can decide for yourself. I use tuned-ppd, as I have a better fancurve and performance than ppd itself
