Best battery optimization tool?

Privacy Questions
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Hi, I’m looking for a battery optimization tool which is not MSI, privacy focused and open-source.

The goal would be to prolong battery life.

Does that exist?

Edit : for Windows 11

Thanks

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For what OS? For linux there are TLP and power-profiles-daemon.

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For Windows: probably doesn’t exist.
Every manufacturer handles the battery in their own (often proprietary) way and to be able to control charging you need to have the proper drivers/API documentation to talk to the charge controller on that particular device (or reverse engineer and build your own from scratch).

Unless it’s a wildly popular machine it’s likely noone made the effort to create it.

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tlp, powertop, and power-profiles-daemon are the tools I’m familiar with (currently I use the latter because its the default for my OS, I’ve had good experience in the past with TLP and I like the simplicity).

These are all Linux tools. I’m not sure what OS you are asking about.

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My bad, I meant for Windows 11.

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Tlp integrates powertop recommendations iirc

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It is quite literally placebo on most non-perfect recent Intel platforms.
If you run it from the command line it’ll say like ‘placeholder’.

I recommend TLP instead.

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I know you also use Fedora (or at least tend to focus on Fedora in some of your comments), do you know why they moved to PPD?

If you run it from the command line it’ll say like ‘placeholder’.

Just confirmed that this is true on the system I’m using right now (8th gen intel).

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Because it had easy integration with GNOME at the time.

They are now moving to tuned again with a ppd api: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Goes-Tuned-PPD

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So would Valynor’s response be the answer?

Does anybody else have inputs on the matter for Windows OS?

Thanks