is powertop easy to use?

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muhammed
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Is there a GUI I can get for it, or is it new user friendly in its standard form?

lembas
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It's very simple.

What to do with the data is another question. :)

muhammed
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Oh I thought there would be a "save electricity, computer" button. lol. I guess it's not that easy?

lembas
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It does give you a few such buttons (at least some version did.)

You might also be interested in https://trisquel.info/wiki/Optimizing_battery_time

muhammed
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Joined: 04/13/2013

I'll give PowerTOP a try, and check out the page you linked. Thanks lembas

lembas
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You're welcome muhammed.

Alij
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Joined: 05/07/2012

great!

grvrulz
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You can try TLP instead of PowerTop. It's supposed to be better http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html