I have a new MSI Summit laptop (i7, RTX3050) and it’s currently running windows 11. To manage fans and power profiles the was an app already installed (MSI center pro) that offers 4 useful profiles (Performance, Balanced, Silent and Super Battery). Since I may want to switch (back) to Linux (I was thinking about Fedora but not sure yet), how would I be able to switch between profiles like these? Do you have a software to do that easily that you recommend me?

  • O Galdo
    5•2 years ago

    I’m not enthusiastic about gaming or using modern equipment, so I have no experience coming directly to give you a solution, but I’ll tell you what steps I’d try to take.

    Asking this question here can be a good start but we have to go further, which I understand you’re already doing. I guess at least you’ve also searched for forums, wikis or documentation, for example. That’s the beginning.

    In the case of very new hardware, there are probably no solutions for these drawbacks or, if they exist, they are still difficult to implement. I don’t think I’m telling you anything new, because if you’re a regular user of Free Software, you must know what happens in these cases where the manufacturer armor its products with patents and proprietary software.

    Here is where the main GNU/Linux distros should be selected, especially those most concerned about giving solutions to gamers, testing them and, if anything is missing, requesting the implementation of new features.

    The most important thing would be to expose the case and request the solution directly to the manufacturer, always looking for more affected users, joining and demanding solutions getting strong from the community.

  • garajimdakiejder
    2•2 years ago

    I have an asus laptop so I am using the kernel module since it does not have a seperate app for linux. If you are going to use fedora, it has kind of a similar profile system.