Good point, edited!
PPD comes default on most distros (I can at least confirm for Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora on the GNOME variant). I am not sure about KDE variants but they should support it too even if it’s not pre-installed.
You can check if it’s running with the following command:
$ powerprofilesctl
However as the 0.20 release which supports p-state just released recently most fixed point release distros won’t have the newer version. In this case you would need to update it manually.
I am running Debian testing and it has the new version while stable does not.
Also want to appreciate the idle efficiency improvements! My AMD laptop only loses a few % of battery life after idling overnight (with the default s2idle sleep mode). A huge improvement to my older work Intel ThinkPad which loses over 25% overnight…
Yes, Zen 2 and above support p-states! You might need to update your bios and enable CPPC if p-state is not showing up.
You can confirm by running $ powerprofilesctl
and seeing if CpuDriver is amd_pstate.
Yes. You should not use tlp anymore on any AMD processor that supports p-states. TLP does not support these and it’s own logic may conflict with the CPU. Use PPD and let the processor itself take care of the optimizations!
See: https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-ppd-v-tlp-for-amd-ryzen-7040/39423
Try both out as flatpaks if you’re on Linux and keep the one you like as I did :). I think both flatpaks come with the full suite.
I ended up sticking with OnlyOffice and feel it will probably work better for most people doing things like writing documents and spreadsheets with various formatting, tables, charts, formulas and equations.
I am mainly a Google docs user (and in the past MS office) as most people are and the OnlyOffice UI and workflow is much more comfortable if you’re coming from these products. Things work and look the way you would expect. LibreOffice UI feels very clunky and dated (even after trying different layouts). For example, charts look really bad by default in LibreOffice. OnlyOffice seems to work pretty much just as well as gDocs/MS office so far in my limited experience for most scenarios.
As part of my effort to reduce reliance on gDocs I am planning on setting up a self hosted Nextcloud office instance and it is based on OnlyOffice so it is more motivation for me to stick with it!