Greetings lovely community,
In Gnome 50, Arch still defaults to using the power-profiles-daemon which is fine, but Fedora stopped using that package a few releases since Fedora 41 and now defaults to tuned which is in the Arch extra repos.
See Fedora Docs for Tuned:
I was a little underwhelmed with the defaults for Gnome 50 on my intel gpu + nvidia mx150, overview frame stutters at times and a few laggy animations because it takes .5 of a sec to wake up my intel to max out its cpu to drive the animations. I’ve since installed tuned tuned-ppd and set the profile to latency-performance which helps to “Optimize for deterministic performance at the cost of increased power consumption.” There is also throughput-performance that offers similar benefits.
I’ve only just installed it, so I’ll need to test it on my hardware for the day, but it looks like this works better for my hardware and I’m already noticing a better benefit. The old “Performance” never really did anything for my hardware, animations were the same whether it was that or Balanced, so I’m trying tuned out since Fedora defaults to that and personally I like what most of Fedora does.
@kagetora13 wrote this piece when the packages were still in the AUR, but times have changed hehe (still worth a quick read though!):
Edit: @dalto This post wasn’t really meant to change anything other than if users wanted to give it a try, but if I recall correctly you thought about making this the default in EOS. Both packages are in extra, so something to maybe consider, but no worries.