I would like to find an option to limit my battery charging because I’m often away from my desk with work left up and running.
I’ve tried Gnome extension Battery Health Charging but it shows an incompatibility error. I have installed msi-ec thinking that would resolve it but it did not.
I see that tlp / tlpui may be an option but I am unsure of compatibility with MSI Delta, and the same for Slimbook Battery.
If I begin installing either of those, I see this in terminal:
looking for conflicting packages...
:: tlp-1.6.1-1 and power-profiles-daemon-0.21-1 are in conflict. Remove power-profiles-daemon? [y/N]
While I learn a lot by trial and error, I would like to not irreversibly screw up my system playing around with power controls. Am I on the right course with this, or is there a better way to go about limiting my battery charge?
TLP and Power Profiles Deamon manage your power consumption. So it is up to you which you will choose, just not both. You will not screw if you install one or another.
Do you know if your laptop has such option in first place? Because not every has.
I am looking as well for a battery threshold option under linux (using a thinkpad, it has it and can be activated with one click in windows).
@Kelltech I did this just an hour ago and would not recommend it, but maybe it will work for your hardware. Once I had TLP installed my usb ports stopped working, after googling I found that this bug was introduced in TLP 1.4 version and not fixed until today …
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Issue you mentioned affects only Thinkpads, and is fixed / have workarounds: https://linrunner.de/tlp/faq/usb.html
I believe this laptop does have, at least in Windows with MSI Dragon Center. I never used Windows on this laptop though, I wiped it and installed EOS before even booting into W10. 